Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am not very introspective.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

Whole generations have forgotten history.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.