John F. Kennedy — "My father always told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never …"

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it's because…"

"My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial, beautifully worked out, and everybody agrees, something is wrong."

"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alo…"

"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."