Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
622
AUTHOR:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (191763)
QUOTATION:
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
ATTRIBUTION:
President JOHN F. KENNEDY, address at the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 26, 1963.Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 736.