Dean Acheson Quotes

I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.

The John F. Kennedy presidency, with its glittering court of Camelot, cemented the impression that it was the Democrats who represented the thinking men and women of America.

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history.

JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing.

JFK [John F. Kennedy] was young, glamorous, Camelot, funny, engaging. Congress loved him.

You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan - I was 12 when he was murdered - but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president. Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.

Was Effenberg a leader because he projected presence or because he had a presence? There is a difference.

[John F. Kennedy] was Arthur, the guy in the middle of the room with all the swords pointed at him. ... He wanted control of the situation.

Conte is a good friend and is very charismatic.

He may not have been a good actor, and I personally don't think he was a good president, but I'll tell you this: Ronald Reagan was a helluva character.

What does not come across on paper for Donald Trump is how incredibly charismatic he is, his ability to connect with people. Because he has this bigger-than-life personality, you don't realize how personable he is.

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

Donald Trump connected in ways with people no one else did.

When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.