Edward Kennedy

“The dream shall never die.”

— Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

— Edward Kennedy

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

— Edward Kennedy

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

— Edward Kennedy

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

— Edward Kennedy

use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his nomination is rejected again this year.

— Edward Kennedy

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

— Edward Kennedy

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

— Edward Kennedy

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope…

— Edward Kennedy

If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and…

— Edward Kennedy

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right…

— Edward Kennedy

The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not…

— Edward Kennedy

Hopefully, this statement means we're finally nearing the end of this very long process to take guns and criminality out of politics…

— Edward Kennedy

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to…

— Edward Kennedy

We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are…

— Edward Kennedy

With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close…

— Edward Kennedy

In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single…

— Edward Kennedy

My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological…

— Edward Kennedy

We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no…

— Edward Kennedy

From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of…

— Edward Kennedy

In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds…

— Edward Kennedy

If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by…

— Edward Kennedy

Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl…

— Edward Kennedy

Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It…

— Edward Kennedy

We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global…

— Edward Kennedy

If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not…

— Edward Kennedy

Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir…

— Edward Kennedy

The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure…

— Edward Kennedy

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

— Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

— Edward Kennedy

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

— Edward Kennedy

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

— Edward Kennedy

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

— Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

— Edward Kennedy

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

— Edward Kennedy

“...the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

— Edward Kennedy

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

— Edward Kennedy

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

— Edward Kennedy

Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey.

— Edward Kennedy