Political Quotes

Joseph Kennedy

The Public Record

Aug 31, 1960

I want to assure you that my overall position on the Algerian question has not changed, and I feel it is properly a matter of International concern.

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Aug 31, 1960

It is my feeling that General De Gaulle at heart does desire to pursue a more liberal policy in Algeria than his predecessors, but I do not think that it is sufficient to say that it therefore becomes exclusively a French problem.

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Aug 31, 1960

I give my assurance that in whatever position I hold in public office I will support and take every step necessary to protect the full constitutional right of every American.

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Aug 30, 1960

A Democratic administration will guarantee that this will be but the first in a long - and long overdue - series of measures to be enacted into law which will give American farmers what they have not had in recent years: prices and income which are comparable to those received by other segments of our economy and in keeping with the farmers' contributions to our national welfare.

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Aug 30, 1960

Once again the Democratic Congress has acted to relieve farmers of some of the pressures resulting from increasing costs and falling prices.

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Aug 30, 1960

Senator John F. Kennedy today announced the appointment of eight leading medical men as an advisory committee to Representative Aime J. Forand.

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Aug 30, 1960

The Federal judiciary and the Federal service should be a model of Americanism, in which there are no traces of any form of arbitrary discrimination.

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Aug 30, 1960

It is time for us to practice what our Constitution preaches.

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Aug 30, 1960

As the guardian of our constitutional rights, the Federal judiciary must have at all levels the best possible judges.

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Aug 30, 1960

I agree with the conclusions of the Pastore committee that sweeping changes in our foreign trade policies are not necessary.

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Aug 30, 1960

My own State of Massachusetts has suffered and is suffering from the same conditions.

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