313 Quotes by Edward Kennedy

the first president to try to write discrimination back into the Constitution.

The only surprise is that the administration is surprised by the intense reaction of the American people.

People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or do. In such cases, like abortion or prayer or prohibition or sexual identity, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law.

America will not be America until we free ourselves of discrimination and bigotry,

Today, President Bush is faced with a decision that affects each and every American and has the potential to impact every facet of constitutional law and the freedoms this country was founded upon.

It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority.

We don't intend to give up or give in.

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.

the decision by the administration to effectively recommend that we wipe away the most important protection that individuals have and that is their ability to say 'no, we will not share the information that is in my medical records'.