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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 622
AUTHOR: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63)
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.
SUBJECTS: Foreign policy