Jackie Kennedy Quotes

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

Jackie Kennedy

I want to live my life, not record it.

Jackie Kennedy

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Jackie Kennedy

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Jackie Kennedy

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

Jackie Kennedy

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

Jackie Kennedy

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Jackie Kennedy

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

Jackie Kennedy

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Jackie Kennedy

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

Jackie Kennedy

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Jackie Kennedy