“If all of you had voted the other way — there's about 5500 of you here tonight — I would not be the President of the United States.”

"Address in Chicago at a dinner of the Democratic Party of Cook County (155)," (28 April 1961) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx
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