President John F. Kennedy quotes

View Quote I am the commander in chief of the United States, and I say when we go to war!

View Quote Bobby, you go and make them understand. Tell them that we have to have an answer tomorrow... because on Monday, we go to war.

View Quote I'll tell you one thing, Kenny. Those brass hats have one big advantage. That is, if we do what they want us to do, there's none of us gonna be alive to tell them they were wrong.

View Quote If one of those ships resists inspection, and we shoot out its rudder, and board it... they shoot down one of our planes, in response. So we bomb their anti-aircraft sites, in response to that... they attack Berlin. So we invade Cuba. And they fire their rockets. And we fire ours.

View Quote God damn it! How the god damn hell could this happen? I'm gonna have Powell's head on a platter. Next to LeMay's. Kenny, you hear me give the order to go to defcon 2? 'cos I remember giving the order to go to defcon 3 but er, y'know I must be suffering from amnesia!

View Quote You know, there's something immoral about abandoning your own judgement.