313 Quotes by Edward Kennedy

The House bill has a provision which would effectively dismantle Medicare.

We must stop acting as if somehow this fundamental issue is just a state and local problem. It isn't. It's a national problem, and it's an outrage that Congress has been missing in action for so long.

Our struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown. Although it often seems that way.

The flaws in the intelligence are plain enough in hindsight,

We know that the current system is broken,

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

You can see the television coverage millions of Americans have seen over the past days, and you can read the stories, the heartbreaking stories and the stories of courage that we've all read in the last few days, ... We can even hear from some of the evacuees, which my wife Vicky and I have listened to up in Cape Cod, Mass., where we have 290 evacuees. But nothing - nothing, nothing, nothing - compares with seeing for ourselves the devastation that we have seen for the last few hours and we'll continue to see.

You know it's kind of interesting, our Republican friends have spent $80 million to distort, misrepresent and basically lie about John Kerry's record, ... That's because they haven't got a record of their own.

From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.