Caroline Kennedy quotes

Caroline Kennedy is an American author, attorney, and diplomat, best known as the daughter of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her career has spanned public service, literature, and advocacy for education and the arts. She has served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan and continues to be an influential public figure. Here are 50 of her quotes:

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

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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.

Caroline Kennedy

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Caroline Kennedy

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Caroline Kennedy

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

Caroline Kennedy

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

Caroline Kennedy

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Caroline Kennedy

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Caroline Kennedy

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

Caroline Kennedy

I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.

Caroline Kennedy

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.

Caroline Kennedy

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

Caroline Kennedy

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

Caroline Kennedy

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

Caroline Kennedy

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

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

Caroline Kennedy

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.

Caroline Kennedy

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

Caroline Kennedy

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

Caroline Kennedy

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

Caroline Kennedy

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Caroline Kennedy