"We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked..." - Quote by John F Kennedy
We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.
More by John F Kennedy
“In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!”
“Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.”
“This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country.”
More on Competition
“Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.”
“My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.”
“What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.”
More on Ambition
“That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.”
“Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.”
“We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.”