JOHN F. KENNEDY JR.

I obviously grew up with politics and have always been interested in ways in which people can get involved with it and be stimulated by it.

For me, the marriage of publishing and politics simply weaves together the two family businesses.

I would wear one of those plastic pocket protectors, but they make you look like a Republican.

What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go to the pier or whatever, there's no avoiding them.

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

There are nuts in this country.

Anyone who's in the magazine business thinks about advertisers when they write about something. And anyone who says they don't is a liar.

Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.

We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one's career and a way to be involved in the issues of the day. And certainly, my father and my relatives really loved all that.

I'm clearly not a major legal genius.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

If you're trying to talk about public issues and politics and showcase it in a positive, different way, I think people like the idea.

The only person I've been able to get to go up with me, who looks forward to it as much as I do, is my wife. Whenever we want to get away, we can just get in a plane and fly off.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

My family is used to all manner of controversy.

In the same way that some magazines have made financial markets accessible to people who don't want that much sophisticated information, we would like to make information about public issues accessible in a way that makes people feel included.

I don't really go out a lot.

I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.

Listen, in the same way that politics and government allow people to engage in large issues, media does the same.

People have an interest in the controversial.

As a younger brother, you look up to your sister.

My mother knew something about politics.

It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It's my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer.

I've done everything from research to stuffing envelopes.