Joseph P. Kennedy Quotes

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.