What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty years that we are angels yet, but I hope we have demonstrated that we are at least friends.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.