Patrick J. Kennedy: “Simply put, the establishment of an American Indian Education Foundation is good government.”

Our family believes in democracy. We believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down his life in World War II fighting Hitler over Germany, got shot down.

We wouldn't expect any less if there were any other illness. And yet we settled for less than 20 percent of Americans getting any of that today in this country.

it is shocking. Literally as shocking as it is that we don't address mental health in our healthcare system is that we don't address mental health in our education system.

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…