313 Quotes by Edward Kennedy


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    This program will prevent pension failures and the incredible suffering they cause for workers and retirees,

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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.

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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.

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    When the roll is called on this $87 billion legislation, which provides no effective conditions for genuine international participation and a clear change in policy in Iraq, I intend to vote no,

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    This is a gateway drug. Smoking and nicotine is an addiction, and this is going right to the core, to the very young in our society.

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    major breakthrough in our effort to give senior citizens the prescription drug coverage under Medicare they need and deserve.

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    This has been an issue that we've been raising for over two years. And during that time those at the end of the economic ladder have been falling further and further behind.

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