“The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest.”

—  John F. Kennedy

Source: Pre-1960, Profiles in Courage (1956), p. 15

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