Quotes from Joe Kennedy III

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 definitely swear more than I should.

I don't give a whole lot of thought or credence to questions about what comes on next, what goes on next.

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.

Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep.

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.

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.

People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.

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.

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

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.

Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.

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.

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.

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.

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

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.

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.

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.