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"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."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

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

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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"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?"

"Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks."

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

"Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me."

"I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness."

"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."
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