Quotes from John F. Kennedy Jr.

I'm not a big planner. Things always sort of surprise me.

I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly.

I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk.

The only person I've been able to get to go up with me, who looks forward to it as much as I do, is my wife. Whenever we want to get away, we can just get in a plane and fly off.

I would wear one of those plastic pocket protectors, but they make you look like a Republican.

What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go to the pier or whatever, there's no avoiding them.

My family is used to all manner of controversy.

It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It's my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

For me, the marriage of publishing and politics simply weaves together the two family businesses.

I'm clearly not a major legal genius.

We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one's career and a way to be involved in the issues of the day. And certainly, my father and my relatives really loved all that.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.

As a younger brother, you look up to your sister.

In the same way that some magazines have made financial markets accessible to people who don't want that much sophisticated information, we would like to make information about public issues accessible in a way that makes people feel included.

We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

There are nuts in this country.

Listen, in the same way that politics and government allow people to engage in large issues, media does the same.

Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.

Anyone who's in the magazine business thinks about advertisers when they write about something. And anyone who says they don't is a liar.