John F. Kennedy — "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

"My father always told me that all politicians are prostitutes."

"The United States is not a country you can come to and get rich quick. It's a country you come to and work hard and get rich slow."

"Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a recent survey, they don't want them to become a Congressman."

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life."

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."