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

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

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.

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.

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.

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.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.