Quotes by Joe Kennedy Iii - Page 1

I'm pretty boring, as it turns out.
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Turns
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I have a pretty terrible sweet tooth.
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Sweet Tooth
Terrible
Tooth
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I definitely swear more than I should.
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Swear
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Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.
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Gun
Ending
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Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.
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Green
Green Card
Humanity
Card
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There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!
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Humbling
Young Children
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I have gotten tubes of Chapstick from every damn corner of the country.
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Damn
Tubes
Corner
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Every member of my family knows that running for office is a personal decision.
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Member
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The strongest, richest, greatest nation in the world shouldn't leave anyone behind.
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Richest
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I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.
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Promise
Simple
Shot
Believe I Believe Simple
Fair
Believe Country I Believe
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I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.
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Massachusetts
Public Service
Extremely
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The time for me in the Peace Corps was easily the most formative experience I've had in my life.
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Peace Corps
Life Time Experience
Life Time Peace
Corps
Formative
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'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works.
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Compromise
Representative
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I don't give a whole lot of thought or credence to questions about what comes on next, what goes on next.
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Credence
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You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.
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Ramifications
Chance People Feel
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Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep.
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Judged
Promises
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You have a person there in Senator McCain that has an integrity in him and will stand up for the political process.
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Mccain
Senator
Political Process
Stand Up
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There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.
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Thumb
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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.
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Bad People
Views
Believe Me People
Believe Me Bad
Republicans
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People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.
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Challenged
Invest
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The American public will give you an awful lot of slack on how you voted on one issue or another if they feel like you have a reason.
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American Public
Awful Lot
Slack
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Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.
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Public Service
Ties
Elective
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Your ally today could be your adversary tomorrow and your ally the next day. Work hard, be polite, be respectful, and don't take it personally.
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Respectful
Work Today Tomorrow
Adversary
Ally
Work Hard
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I realize that some folks might not believe me in this - I didn't run for Congress on the hopes that one day you're going to run for something else.
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Believe Me Day
Hopes
Something Else
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I have worked very, very hard over the course of my time in Congress to make sure that everybody does get access to quality, affordable, accessible health care.
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Affordable
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I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.
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Cutting
Healthcare
Mercy
Program
Understanding
Billion
Classified
Hard Time
Provides
Working Families
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Somewhere down the road, if a Senate seat were to open, yeah, it's something I'd certainly take a look at. But that's got to be right in time for me and my family.
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Down The Road
Senate
Time Family Me
Seat
Family Time Look
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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.
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Grandfather
President Kennedy
Ballot
Father Me Name
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My family means different things to different folks. I think, for most people, they have very fond memories and believe my family made important contributions to the country.
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Different Things
Fond Memories
Memories
Contributions
Fond
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To me, that's what the Peace Corps is all about - the impact that simple acts of service can have across borders, generations, and time. It's a lesson I carry with me every day.
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Borders
Generations
Impact
Peace Corps
Simple
Across
Time Peace Me
Acts
Carry
Corps
Every Day
Lesson
Service
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If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.
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Credibility
Makers
Bestow
Earn
Greatest Challenge
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This is our country and our home and our families. We can decide that one person's right to bear arms does not come at the expense of a neighbor's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Arms
Neighbor
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Bear
Expense
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What will get you elected through a tough election cycle and what will get you kicked out when you should have won is whether your constituents feel like their Member of Congress respects them or not.
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Election
Your Will Feel
Cycle
Respects
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There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.
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Health
Care
Country
Elderly
Health Care
Luxury
Mercy
Poor
Protection
Sick
Suffering
Turns
Back
Health Care Country
Makes
System
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Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.
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Defense
Mark
Bullies
Match
Punch
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I have been extraordinarily fortunate in my life, luckier than almost anybody on this planet. And whenever I ran into challenges, my parents did everything they could so that I could maximize my own potential.
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Ran
Life Challenges My Life
Extraordinarily
Luckier
Maximize
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There are ways that we, as a society, the laws that we write and the contracts we build, can try to actually increase people's ability to reap the reward from their own potential. But we put barriers in front of them.
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Barriers
Contracts
Reap
Reward
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People always ask what's it like to grow up as a Kennedy. It's a family. It's big, it's large, it's amazing. You've got strong personalities with strong opinions. And we'll come out differently on some of those opinions.
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Opinions
Personalities
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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.
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Bipartisan
Commitment
Decision
Grounded
Office
Public Service
Solutions
Elected
Finding
Practical
Seriously
Service
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Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.
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Behalf
Broken
Climate
Constituents
Economic
Fixing
Immigration
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Succeed
Battles
Businesses
Raising
Supporting
Wage
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I think if I have learned one thing from all of my family members, both sides of it - my mom's side, my dad's side and everyone else - it's that every one of us has a responsibility to do what we can to contribute back and make our communities and our country a better place.
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Better Place
Both Sides
Family Members
Members
Responsibility
Sides
Family Mom Dad
Communities
Contribute
Everyone Else
Family Dad Mom
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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.
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Blow
Campaigns
Alone Time Family
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It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.
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Fundamentals
Headlines
Seeking
Me People Important
Member
Responsibilities
Spokesperson
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