Ted Kennedy Quotes (37 Quotes)

Many in the scientific community are concerned that the president's decision will delay development of cures for dread disease for many years, at the cost of countless lives and immeasurable suffering,

It's not enough to go to the United Nations with a resolution, ... We must go with the right resolution, and it's not clear that this administration is ready to swallow its pride and do that. Words don't matter. We need deeds.

In the midst of a national disaster of biblical proportions, it is difficult for the American people to participate fully in the selection of the next chief justice, one of the most important positions in our government and the chief protector of our Constitution,

Nominees must earn their confirmation by providing us with full knowledge of the values and convictions they will bring to decisions that may profoundly affect our progress as a nation. Judge Roberts has not done so. His repeated allegiance to the rule of law reveals little about the values he would bring to the job of chief justice of the United States.

He was really far ahead of his time. He saw something that was out there.

This debate is about making sure patients get the protections they deserve, ... It's about whether we are going to stop HMOs from making medical decisions.

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

This legislation removes the unfair barriers that currently hinder the ability of battered immigrants to escape domestic violence safely and prosecute their abusers.

We will not be able to move past this scandal as a nation until there is full independent investigation of all that has gone wrong in our detention and interrogation policy, and all the persons found responsible for these shameful policies are held accountable,

It would be unconscionable for Congress to adjourn without providing urgently needed help for those who need fuel assistance this winter.

History will now say on this impeachment, as they said on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, that it was the radical Republicans. ... And that is going to be the judgment of history.

O'Neill has now revealed what many have long suspected, ... Despite protestations to the contrary, the president and his senior aides began the march to war in Iraq in the earliest days of the administration.

On issue after issue, they have moved brazenly to impose their agenda on America and on the world, ... They have pursued their goals at the expense of urgent national and human needs and at the expense of the truth. America deserves better.

Here's what President Bush said in his State of the Union address two months ago 'This economy is strong and growing stronger. Productivity is high and jobs are on the rise.' Last month he said it again,

On key issues of equal rights, fairness, and access to justice, he has repeatedly found ways to keep people from vindicating their rights, obtaining remedies, and protecting themselves from government invasions of their privacy,

I'm just trying to find out, on the Voting Rights Act, whether you have any problem at all and trouble at all in terms of the constitutionality of the existing Voting Rights Act that was extended by the Congress.

I think there's enormous potential in terms of solar power and wind power all along the coastal areas and I think we ought to take advantage of it.

a positive step long awaited by many of us in Congress.

I don't know what to say. I'm happy and sad all at the same time. It was only a matter of time before conservatives reared their ugly head. These are banner days for Democrats. Oil and gas prices are up. The elderly are starving. It's great news and it's become clear that we're the ones in touch with real Americans. These flag waving braggarts have to go

had hoped to hear acknowledgment from the president of our failures in Iraq, the war on terrorism and the administration's concrete plans for solving them with our allies and through the United Nations.

People are looking at Iowa, ... Iowa's going to have an extraordinary opportunity to set the direction for this country and to have an important influence on the nominating process.

Natural gas... could cost as much as one and a half times what it did last year, when the current price of heating oil is already 30 percent higher than a year ago,

I am extremely disappointed that the president has proposed this relief using such a politically charged approach. This is not time for a partisan political debate on vouchers.

We all know what's going on. The tobacco industry is interested in some kind of watered down bill. They're more interested in the political lives of those senators rather than the lives of children that are really at risk,

Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina, ... The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.

Do you believe that Congress has the power to pass laws aimed at eliminating discrimination in society, or do you believe that our hands are tied - that the elected representatives of the people of the us are without the power to pass laws aimed at righting wrongs, ending injustice, eliminating the inequalities that we have just witnessed so dramatically and tragically in New Orleans,

The burden on him is especially heavy, because the administration, at least so far, has chosen not to allow the Senate to have access to his full record, ... We can only wonder what they don't want us to know.

to the highways and byways of this country and to the senior citizen centers and nursing homes where the senior citizens gather.

indicated that they really didn't have a plan to win the peace after winning the war.

It's time that Gerry Adams free himself from the IRA. We cannot in Western countries have a political party that has its own private army, particularly one that's been associated with criminality and violence,

I certainly hope the administration's long-awaited re-involvement in this fundamental debate is genuine, and not because of election year conversion.

It's an indictment of the lengths Administration officials were willing to go to cover up their failed intelligence, their distortion on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and their serious blunders on the war,

We know that, at the outset, you're going to have the same kind of fight on this as we had on big tobacco. Make no mistake about it. And the insurance industries will be out there and they'll be having the same kind of battle,

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

This administration manipulated and misused intelligence information that rushed us to war.

Former Chief Justice Earl Warren understood the impact of separate but equal on generations of both white and black children. That's what a chief justice does, ... Roberts has given nothing but bloodless answers.

Members have a lot of respect for the kind of diligence and hard work (exhibited by Burr), ... It's been a very important service (for Burr) to develop that expertise.