“Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in …” — Mark Shriver

I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.

Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.