Gene Tierney Quotes

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

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 would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.

I love J. F. K. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

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

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

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

Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.

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 didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

[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.

I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

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

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

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.

I was very political when JFK ran.

As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her.

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

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