Patrick J. Kennedy Quotes

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Creating, Trying, Warfare

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• Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Procrastination, Perfectionist

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• In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

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  Justice For All, Liberty, Owners

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• And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

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  Government, Communicate, Homeland Security

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• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Class, Class Status, Ifs

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• No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

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  Race, Class, People

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• Our contention is not that medication alone is the answer. We really need to have it in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy and with peer support. And that needs to be reimbursed [by health insurers], because it shows huge reductions in overall spending.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Support, Needs, Peers

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

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  Organization, People, Giving

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• Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Progress, Add, Littles

  Congressional Record, Volume 151, Part 19, p. 25337, November 08, 2005.

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• I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Liberty

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• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

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  Depression, Years, Gdp

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• My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

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  Children, Average, Poverty

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• People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Real, People, Addiction

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

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  War, Keys, Mind

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• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

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  Country, People, Investing

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• My mother is still battling alcoholism.

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  Mother, Alcoholism, Stills

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• Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Believe, Government, America

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• You don't fight cancer with grants, or heart disease with grants.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Cancer, Heart, Fighting

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Doctors, Two, People

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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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.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I am a recovering alcoholic.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Recovering, Alcoholics, Recovering Alcoholics

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• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

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  Children, Years, Broken

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• Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

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  Leadership, Years, Turkeys

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• A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

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  Impact, Addiction, Alcohol

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• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  People, Tragedy, Way

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