"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses..." - Quote by John F Kennedy

“The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.”

“When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.”

“To those whom much is given, much is expected.”

“Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.”

“Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.”

“I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.”

“Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?”

“When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.”

“I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.”