Quotes By Caroline Kennedy

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

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.

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

There are many ways to serve.

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.

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.

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.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

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.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

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.

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

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.

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.

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

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

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.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

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

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

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

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

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

I've been a Democrat all my life.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

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

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

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

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.

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.