Top 30 Joe Kennedy III Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I definitely swear more than I should.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m pretty boring, as it turns out.

Every member of my family knows that running for office is a personal decision.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I’m extremely proud of my family’s record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.

I’m not going to vote for or against somebody because they’re old or young.

I have gotten tubes of Chapstick from every damn corner of the country.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.

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.

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

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.

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