Caroline Kennedy Quotes

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
Caroline Kennedy

Service, Public, Devotion

I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.
Caroline Kennedy

Important, Person

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, Hard, Remember

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

May, Working, Others

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

Love, Poetry, Mother

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.
Caroline Kennedy

Best, Presidency, Brings

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

Makes, Everybody, Shy

I've been a Democrat all my life.
Caroline Kennedy

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

Work, Country, Elections

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

Kids, Three, Books

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

Life, Funny, Time

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

Work, Family, Hard

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.
Caroline Kennedy

Remember, Sense, Spirit

Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.
Caroline Kennedy

Forward, Fight, Personal

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.
Caroline Kennedy

Love, Live, Die

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.
Caroline Kennedy

Love, Mother, Greatest

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Caroline Kennedy

Love, History, Parents

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
Caroline Kennedy

Poetry, Feelings, Ideas

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
Caroline Kennedy

Poetry, Boring, Understand

There are many ways to serve.
Caroline Kennedy

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
Caroline Kennedy

Great, Excitement, Adult

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.
Caroline Kennedy

Nature, Time, Help

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

Life, Work, Politics

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.
Caroline Kennedy

Power, Strong, Country

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
Caroline Kennedy

Politics, Money, Pretty

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Celebrity

Born: November 27, 1957

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