Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1902 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President-elect In Theodore Sorensen’s Kennedy (1965), these words are followed by “There may be difficulties with the Congress, but a margin of only one vote would still be a mandate” (p. 219). |
| SUBJECTS: | Voters and voting |