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I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

I wouldn't want to be President now!

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.