Quotes from Caroline Kennedy

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

There are many ways to serve.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

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

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

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.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

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

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

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

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

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.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

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've been a Democrat all my life.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

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