My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY I am a recovering alcoholic.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated ...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication abo...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progre...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an educati...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, n...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discr...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survi...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY We could have a budget that brings Americans together.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression al...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk tha...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to thos...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk comm...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack i...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insuranc...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by cre...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedo...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to ...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
PATRICK J. KENNEDY We don't go in uninvited.
PATRICK KENNEDY My staff is not interested in processing a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment until after we g...
PATRICK KENNEDY 2005 was a fantastic year for punters which impacted our gross win percentages.
PATRICK KENNEDY The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves expe...
X. J. KENNEDY To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color ...
X. J. KENNEDY As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
X. J. KENNEDY Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it's as simple as waking up one day and ...
ALLISON J. KENNEDY My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.&...
X. J. KENNEDY I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down a...
PATRICK J. ADAMS There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting ca...
PATRICK J. ADAMS Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I ...
PATRICK J. ADAMS I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I w...
PATRICK J. ADAMS My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy a...
PATRICK J. ADAMS The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get '...
PATRICK J. ADAMS So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ...
PATRICK J. ADAMS Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
PATRICK J. ADAMS I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that...
PATRICK J. ADAMS My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came dow...
PATRICK J. ADAMS What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything bein...
PATRICK J. ADAMS Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sen...
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Terrorist are picadors and matadors. They prick the bull until it bleeds and is blinded by rage, the...
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the...
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in th...
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We ...
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clea...
PATRICK J. ADAMS In times of great crisis, Americans have always turned to God and prayer for help and comfort. We ar...
PATRICK J. MAHONEY We view this deal definitely as a betrayal,
PATRICK J. MAHONEY What was critical to my father was that we not "go into government". His father and mother had both ...
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The rat is
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doer J. PATRICK LEWIS Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN I have discovered that when we least care to admit it, we feel more confused than thankful, more cau...
PATRICK J. MALONE, S.J. So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically con...
RANDALL KENNEDY In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that ...
RANDALL KENNEDY As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've imme...
RANDALL KENNEDY Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or...
RANDALL KENNEDY I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a blac...
RANDALL KENNEDY The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome ...
RANDALL KENNEDY I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public ...
RANDALL KENNEDY The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, m...
RANDALL KENNEDY I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for yo...
RANDALL KENNEDY We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselv...
RANDALL KENNEDY As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining th...
RANDALL KENNEDY The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of th...
RANDALL KENNEDY Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the...
RANDALL KENNEDY In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale...
RANDALL KENNEDY Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genui...
RANDALL KENNEDY I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it persona...
RANDALL KENNEDY All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that...
RANDALL KENNEDY If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have t...
RANDALL KENNEDY Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
RANDALL KENNEDY In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly l...
JACKIE KENNEDY Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
JACKIE KENNEDY Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
JACKIE KENNEDY The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
JACKIE KENNEDY What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had familie...
JACKIE KENNEDY I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all da...
JACKIE KENNEDY Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a hor...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
JACKIE KENNEDY There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
JACKIE KENNEDY You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
JACKIE KENNEDY Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin...
JACKIE KENNEDY Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living al...
JACKIE KENNEDY I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
JACKIE KENNEDY There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
JACKIE KENNEDY The only routine with me is no routine at all.
JACKIE KENNEDY I want to live my life, not record it.
JACKIE KENNEDY I am a woman above everything else.
JACKIE KENNEDY The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to li...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have oft...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of governm...
ROBERT KENNEDY Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cy...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee ...
ROBERT KENNEDY The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our worl...
JACKIE KENNEDY Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm...
EUGENE KENNEDY 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our he...
ROBERT KENNEDY There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ...
EUGENE KENNEDY I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
ROSE KENNEDY Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or m...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
FLORYNCE KENNEDY The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that ge...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be opp...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy th...
EUGENE KENNEDY Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
DAN KENNEDY For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.
DAN KENNEDY Just out of curiosity,” she says, “after you wake up in the morning, do you admire yourself in t...
ELLE KENNEDY We shall build on.
On through the cynic
STUDDERT KENNEDY I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what...
ROSE KENNEDY I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to ma...
ROSE KENNEDY Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDY Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to ...
ANTHONY KENNEDY