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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.


Patrick J. Kennedy

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ROBERT KENNEDY The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our worl...
JACKIE KENNEDY Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm...
EUGENE KENNEDY 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our he...
ROBERT KENNEDY There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ...
EUGENE KENNEDY I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
ROSE KENNEDY Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or m...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
FLORYNCE KENNEDY The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that ge...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be opp...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy th...
EUGENE KENNEDY Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
DAN KENNEDY For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.
DAN KENNEDY Just out of curiosity,” she says, “after you wake up in the morning, do you admire yourself in t...
ELLE KENNEDY We shall build on.
On through the cynic
STUDDERT KENNEDY I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what...
ROSE KENNEDY I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to ma...
ROSE KENNEDY Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
ROSE KENNEDY Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to ...
ANTHONY KENNEDY