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• In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs or working for less, trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge [Samuel] Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of the individual citizens. He has acted instead in favor of government, large corporations and other powerful interests.

  Edward Kennedy

  Jobs, Powerful, Government

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Edward Kennedy

  Government, People, Demand

  Ted Kennedy's concession speech to Jimmy Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, New York City, www.nydailynews.com. August 26, 2009.

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• My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's the way he approached his life. The way he approached his life - he was the eternal optimist. He was the most optimistic person that I've ever known. Even in the face of this diagnosis with cancer, he was filled with optimism about what he could do and what he could accomplish.

  Edward Kennedy

  Father, Cancer, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My father lifted me up in his strong gentle arms and said something I will never forget. He said, "I know you can do it. There is nothing that you can't do. We're going to climb that hill together even if it takes us all day." And at age 12 losing your leg pretty much seems like the end of the world. But as I climbed onto his back and we flew down the hill that day, I knew he was right. I knew I was going to be OK. You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. And it is what we do with that loss - our ability to transform it into a positive event.

  Edward Kennedy

  Strong, Father, Loss

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

  Edward Kennedy

  Issues, Moral, Compromise

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Family reunification has been an essential aspect of these policies.Many of those who are brought in, in terms of families, have become actively involved. They open small stores, play a significant role in the economy. The families and the importance of family unity are extremely important.

  Edward Kennedy

  Play, Unity, Important

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  Running, Country, Technology

  Interview with Roger Mudd, October 12, 1979.

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• Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them.

  Edward Kennedy

  Issues, Judging, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more troubling.That document lays out an ideological agenda that highlights Judge Samuel Alito in belonging to an alumni group at Princeton that opposed the admission of women and proposed to curb the admission of racial minorities.

  Edward Kennedy

  Jobs, Light, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job: in 15 years on the bench, not one.

  Edward Kennedy

  Jobs, Race, Color

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren.

  Edward Kennedy

  Children, Impact, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

  Edward Kennedy

  Giving, Faults, Common

  "Transcript of Ted Kennedy's Funeral Service" by The Kennedy Family, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2009.

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• Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either on the physical and emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else. I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately.

  Edward Kennedy

  Responsibility, Emotional, Doctors

  "Senator Edward Kennedy's famous quotes excerpted from speeches (List)". www.ibtimes.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.

  Edward Kennedy

  Responsibility, People, Accountability

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• 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 warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency.

  Edward Kennedy

  Science, Wings, Agency

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

  Edward Kennedy

  Gun, Yield, Politics

  Senate debate with Mitt Romney, 1994.

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• In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.

  Edward Kennedy

  Freedom, Numbers, People

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• The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Government, People

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• The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted to misuse government in order to impose a value which they cannot persuade others to accept. But once we succumb to that temptation, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.

  Edward Kennedy

  Religious, Men, Order

  "Kennedy Tells Falwell Group Of Tolerance" by Phil Gailey, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 1983.

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• A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Ideas, Loving Someone

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• The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America themselves.

  Edward Kennedy

  Dark, Gymnastics, Past

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• I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.

  Edward Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, Government

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• It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

  Edward Kennedy

  Unfinished Business, Iraq, Office

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

  Edward Kennedy

  Morning, Fall, Winter

  Esquire: The Meaning of Life, (p. 81), 2009.

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• We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out.

  Edward Kennedy

  Military, Speaks Out, Iraq

  "Official: First wave of troops to Iraq by Jan. 30". www.nbcnews.com. January 9, 2007.

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