Jackie Kennedy Quotes

I want to live my life, not record it.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I’d feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

History — its what those bitter old men write.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she’s intrepid; she’s the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.