I don’t ever remember a dinner party, a cocktail party in our house ever. It was always family. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
When I protested because they wouldn’t buy me new skates or if someone complained a teacher gave too much homework, Dad would respond: There’s no whining in this house. It was his way of saying: there is no place in this house for feeling sorry for yourself. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
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. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
Our life did not seem unusual to me at all. Anything that happened that was special, like visits from dignitaries, was always explained as part of Dad’s work. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
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. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
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. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
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. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
We can’t be dominated by ruthless terrorism and the American principle is that we never will be. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
