Kitty Kelley

“JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.”

“Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.”

“He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.”

“John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.”

“People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.”

“There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?”

“Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown... The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.”

“Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.”

“Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.”

“My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'”

“The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.”