Gene Weingarten Quotes

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

[Describing John F. Kennedy:] He is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

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.

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

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.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

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

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.

[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.

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

I strive to be the best possible president that I can be to work for all of you and to represent out country and all Singaporeans.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

If there is not the occasion, you don't get the great statesmen. If Lincoln had lived in peacetime, you would not know his name today.

When you're in the real world as President of the United States it doesn't go according to the script.

No one is ready to be President. If you end up with the title, you adjust to the position.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

Effective Presidents are those who can achieve a balance between purpose and prudence.

Very few presidents create their own greatness. Greatness is thrust upon them by a crisis.

No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about the decisions that Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower made during the most dangerous decades in American and world history. But we know now that they did what was right, and we honor them for it.

Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.

Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.