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Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

I was very political when JFK ran.

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

I was a political science student.