| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 32396 |
| QUOTATION: | When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, May 27, 1961, at dinner honoring Kennedy’s 44th birthday, Washington, DC. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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