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If I am

If I am to die, this is the week for it. — John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.

Who can tell

Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? — John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.

If someone is

If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. — John F. Kennedy (to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.), 1962.

My father always

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. — (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure

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