Caroline Kennedy Quotes
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Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.
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Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
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People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
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I grew up in New York, I love New York.
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Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
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Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
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There are many ways to serve.
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To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
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You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
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I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
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I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.
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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
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I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.
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When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
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I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.
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I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.
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I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
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I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.
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It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
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One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
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Change isn't easy, it takes time.
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As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
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I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.
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Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.