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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Mar 3, 1963

I express my thanks to you all and I hope that in our time we will do as well as those who have been before us.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Feb 18, 1963

So, Mr. President, we are, and everybody in this room are, great admirers of yours.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Feb 14, 1963

It is my earnest hope that the District of Columbia will be a leader in adopting and demonstrating the new concepts in the treatment of mental illness.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Feb 13, 1963

If we serve them better now, they will serve their nation better when the burdens are theirs alone.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Feb 12, 1963

This demonstration of support should renew your confidence in the rightness of your course and strengthen your resolve to lead Iran to further achievements in the struggle to better the lot of your people.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Feb 6, 1963

Mr. Martin has my full confidence, and I look forward to continuing to work with him and his colleagues on the Board in the interests of a strong United States economy.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Jan 31, 1961

It's easier to sit with a map and talk about what ought to be done than to see it done.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

We are electing on Tuesday, not a committee, not a protégé, not a rescue squad; we are electing a President of the United States.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

We are not electing a committee next Tuesday; we are electing a President of the United States.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

I come here tonight and ask you to join us, ask you to make a decision which will permit this country to have the kind of leadership which will enable us to build a strong and vital society, a society which will serve as an inspiration to people all over the globe.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

Better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

What great issue, what great stream of history, has he associated himself with in the changing years of the 1960's?

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

We see the storm coming, and we know His hand is in it. But if He has a place and a part for me, I believe that we are ready.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

I ask your support not merely for my candidacy or that of my colleagues, but I ask your support in choosing right for this country, in moving this country forward, in picking it up and sending it into the sixties to meet its responsibilities.

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