Kennedy and Reagan Quotes

“The great actors always play themselves.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“For him (JFK) as he imagined of the British aristocracy, policies were less important than character traits such as dignity, courage, and honor. They did not pose as angry young men, but brought an almost lighthearted approach to politics. The very idea of politics invigorating society rather than dominating society very much appealed to Kennedy.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easily manipulated masses.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure