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1932–2009 United States
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (22 February 1932 – 25 August 2009) was the senior Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts. In office from November 1962 to August 2009, Kennedy was, at the time, the second-longest serving member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
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The story of East Bengal will surely be written as one of the greatest nightmares of modern times.
My conduct and conversations during the next several hours, to the extent that I can remember them, make no sense to me at all.
The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on.
DNC Speech (2008)
The last thing this country needs is two Republican parties.
When does the greed stop, we ask the other side? That’s the question and that’s the issue.
How proud he would be of Caroline this evening -- and of the magnificent woman she has become.
DNC Speech (2000)
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.
But don't you realize, that's where I sail.
For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
The Dream Shall Never Die (1980)
It was a battle he didn't have the opportunity to finish.
Newsweek op-ed (2009)
Incremental measures won't suffice anymore. We need to succeed where Teddy Roosevelt and all others since have failed. The conditions now are better than ever.
Newsweek op-ed (2009)
I am asking you to renew the commitment of the Democratic Party to economic justice.
The Dream Shall Never Die (1980)
I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.
Senate debate with Mitt Romney (1994)
Ulster is becoming Britain’s Vietnam.
My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
Love is not an easy feeling to put into words. Nor is loyalty, or trust, or joy. But he was all of these. He loved life completely and he lived it intensely.
The Constitution has guided our country well for two centuries.
Sen. Kennedy's closed-door impeachment statement (1999)
We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father, he had every gift but length of years.
We must adopt a system of gasoline rationing without delay – not rationing by price, as the Administration has decreed, but rationing by supply in a way that demands a fair sacrifice from all Americans.
Will we dare to dream of a far horizon -- or will we look inward; look backward; lower our sights and narrow our vision?
DNC Speech (2000)
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