Quotes By Joseph P. Kennedy III

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.