Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.