313 Quotes by Edward Kennedy

My own position is I don't think we ought to abandon schools by taking money away from public schools in order to save them. And that's been my position for some period of time,

I can still remember sitting in the Judiciary Committee at the time that William French Smith testified against it and being absolutely appalled,

If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.

long-awaited first step toward a comprehensive pandemic flu plan that America needs and deserves.

I can only see Republican complaints as an effort to bully Senate Democrats into rubber stamping their right-wing judicial nominees. Republicans don't understand that the issues at stake go far beyond partisan games. This debate is about lifetime appointment to the courts that decide cases that shape the lives of all American people.

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

I think most American workers want to make sure that when they have actually purchased health insurance, they're going to get the insurance they have purchased,

I am proud that the Senate has come together to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform.

We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters, which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court.