A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.

When we got into office, the one thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy survived as an orator to the point of delivering his own funeral oration, since Theodore Sorenson continued to write speeches for his successor in the …

So, you want this rotten job? (To Barry Goldwater, visiting him in the Oval Office)