Edward Kennedy Quotes

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• Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and…
• We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay…
• Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in the Armed Forces.…
• Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
• No one who works for a living should live in poverty.
• Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a…
• I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.
• Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who…
• What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
• We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.
• Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
• Have faith in yourself and in the future.
• Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
• For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is…
• We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest...
• Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
• Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the right to be…
• For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on,…
• Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
• My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent…

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