Patrick J. Kennedy: “Even though they disagreed, they were always searching for ways to put their country ahead of their party.”

Moving public health bills should not be a partisan exercise.

When we have an emergency, FEMA comes in. They've got housing, job opportunities, support of this and that. We need a strategy that understands that housing is critical to address the homeless epidemic of people with severe mental illness…

So if I were both a liberal or a conservative, parity would be a big issue for me.

there are hundreds of thousands of my fellows in America who are dying because their medical system does not know they have an underlying addiction because it doesn't show in the EMR that they have been treated for addiction.