| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1520 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | Well, I am reading more and enjoying it less—[laughter]—and so on, but I have not complained nor do I plan to make any general complaints. I read and talk to myself about it, but I don’t plan to issue any general statement on the press. I think that they are doing their task, as a critical branch, the fourth estate. And I am attempting to do mine. And we are going to live together for a period, and then go our separate ways. [Laughter]. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President JOHN F. KENNEDY, when asked to comment on the press in general, news conference, May 9, 1962.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, p. 376 (1963). |
| SUBJECTS: | Press |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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