Caroline Kennedy Quotes - Page 2

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• In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Family, Thinking, Particular

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• Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Ideas, Feelings, Way

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• After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mom, Fashion, Real

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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.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Thinking, Different, Term Limits

  Interview with Maggie Haberman, nypost.com. December 28, 2008.

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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.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Thinking, People, Problem

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• I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Country, People, Groups

  "More Caroline: Spoke to Hillary, won't run if not selected". Interview With Ben Smith, www.politico.com. December 26, 2008.

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• We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Believe, President, Needs

  "At convention, Democratic heavyweights flex muscles for Gore". www.cnn.com. August 15, 2000.

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• I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, People, Personality

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• The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Inspiring, Special, Winner

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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.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Fashion, Book

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• I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Father, Reading

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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.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Running, Husband, School

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• In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Voting, Needs, Rare Moments

  "JFK’s Daughter Endorses Obama" by Caroline Kennedy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Shy

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• Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Growing Up, Growing, Election

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• I grew up in New York, I love New York.

  Caroline Kennedy

  New York, Grew Up, Grew

  "More Caroline: Spoke to Hillary, won't run if not selected". Interview With Ben Smith, www.politico.com. December 26, 2008.

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• Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Growing Up, Home, Important Values

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• In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Funny, Book, People

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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.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Education, Issues, Educated

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• Change isn't easy, it takes time.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Easy, Take Time, It Takes Time

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• Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

  Caroline Kennedy

  People, Forever

  "Caroline Kennedy explains her Senate bid" by Larry Neumeister, www.sfgate.com. December 27, 2008.

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• I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Devotion, Public Service, Lifelong

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• I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Book, Kids, Three

  "ABC’s David Muir: Caroline Kennedy 'Opening Up' ...About Her iPod". www.newsbusters.org. December 29, 2008.

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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.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mean, Commitment, Fighting

  Interview with Nicholas Confessore, David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 2008.

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• The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Father, Years

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