- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Public Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Joe passed away in the war, it seemed only natural that Jack and Bobby and then Teddy might pursue office as well. Public service was part of our DNA from our earliest years.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
To all of us, Dad was Number One in our house.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone acknowledges Teddy is the person in the Senate who speaks for Ireland.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I believe Ireland is getting more European, and the young are looking toward Europe for jobs - just as there are a lot of Europeans coming to Dublin.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to explain in 'The Nine of Us' how we grew up with politics. At meals we talked about what was in the newspaper. We talked politics non-stop! Campaigning for our brothers was a part of our lives.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Bronxville, New York, we went to public school there, before London. Mother had a great belief in public school. She said it was very good for us to meet all the neighborhood kids.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think coming from a big family, it helps you to keep your sense of humor about certain things... even politics.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a very powerful influence, well, always, through our life. He taught us very much that... we were very lucky and that we should make a contribution to country, that we were fortunate to live in America.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever remember a dinner party, a cocktail party in our house ever. It was always family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Irish people were willing to take me at face value, to give me the benefit of the doubt because I was a Kennedy. I think being a Kennedy was extremely helpful.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never sat down and said, 'Now I must make a contribution, that one person can make a difference.' But I felt I was in a position where I could contribute. I never thought of it in the light of history or my brothers. I just felt I had an obligation.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother and Dad were destined to have a gaggle of children. We would not have been complete if they had stopped at two or four or even six. Nine of us we had to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I was there through it all, it is hard for me to comprehend that I was growing up with brothers who would eventually occupy the highest offices of our nation, including president of the United States.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that I am the only member of our original family still living.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all grew up in Bronxville, I went to Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart - in the old location on Convent Avenue - and I've lived here since 1962. I couldn't feel more like a New Yorker.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband has been very supportive of me, and we've shared a lot. Yes! We've had a lot of laughs. You have to have them. He makes life fun. That's important, isn't it?'
- Height
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is certainly accurate, as it has often been said and as his letters reveal, that Grandpa supplied his tenth college reunion with alcohol in 1922 at the height of Prohibition.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been my understanding that all official expenses for the U.S. ambassador's residence in Dublin have been approved by the State Department.
- Buy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't buy from any one special designer.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel I was very fortunate to be in the position to do something positive, to make a contribution to change. It gave me terrific satisfaction.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel... at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences... Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.
- Except
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not in public life except by accident.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there should be a reason tor people to be interviewed. For me, there's no real reason.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To tell the truth, I don't feel the pressure of fame. I don't have the problem of being a celebrity in terms of recognizability.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to like children and I happen to like the arts.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I looked at my mother, I always saw a bit of Ireland. And I suppose when I look to Ireland, I see a bit of my mother - her faith, her wit, her endurance.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of nine children, and I have a lot of pictures.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't be dominated by ruthless terrorism and the American principle is that we never will be.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020