The deep desire to inspire people, to take an active part in the life of the country … attracts our best people to political life … We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. We owe that to our country.

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words (2004)

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Instructions to press secretary Pamela Turnure; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983)

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