John F. Kennedy Quotes

No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if you're not playing by the rules, you're taking a big risk.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

In dreams begins responsibility.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

We were elected to lead and sometimes we just have to do the right thing.

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

Moral hazard is something I don't take lightly.

Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.

The voting public is not very good at attributing credit and blame to presidents. They get too much credit when things go well and too much blame when things go badly. The same applies to coaches, C.E.O.'s, parents, and anyone else in charge.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.