top of page
"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more America quotes

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."

"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."
Explore more quotes by Pierre Salinger

"Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history."

"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."

"One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions."

"A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States."

"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."

"The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before."

"The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life."

"He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?"
bottom of page