List of Patrick J. Kennedy Quotes

I Am A Recovering Alcoholic.

My State Has The Highest Child Poverty Rate In All Of New England, Above The National Average.

We Believe In Some Basic Human Principles - Everyone Should Have The Opportunities Not Just To Survive, But To Excel With Their God-given Talents And Abilities. Those Are The Values That Should Be Reflected In Our Budgets.

The Key Battleground In The War On Terrorism, Therefore, Is In The Minds Of The American Public.

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.

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.

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.

You Don't Fight Cancer With Grants, Or Heart Disease With Grants.

I See The Policy Of Opposing Same-sex Marriages Or Unions, Whatever You Call It, As Bigotry Or Discrimination.

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.

Americans Have Been Given Goals To Achieve In Iraq, But Not The Standards By Which To Measure Progress. And The Only Assurance Americans Have Been Given That We Can Reach Those Goals Is To Trust The President And His Administration At Their Word.

People Are Going To Keep Getting Prescribed Medication That Is Counter To What Their Real Disease State Is, Which Is Addiction.