The best Quotes by Pierre Salinger

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

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.

Whole generations have forgotten 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.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

If anybody really wants to shoot the President of the United States, it is not a very difficult job - all one has to do is get a high building some day with a telescopic rifle, and there is nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt on the President's life.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Let the word go forth... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

The world is very very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

You can leave Dallas, but it will never leave you.

As bright as the Dallas sky, she always holds her head up high.

There's one thing that every terrorist knows: fear is the most effective explosive.