Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.
EDWARD KENNEDY We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don'...
EDWARD KENNEDY Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things abou...
EDWARD KENNEDY The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose...
EDWARD KENNEDY As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Na...
EDWARD KENNEDY This is really a leap of faith, isn't it? ... There are those that took the leap in terms of the war...
EDWARD KENNEDY The record we have so far is simply insufficient.
EDWARD KENNEDY America will not be America until we free ourselves of discrimination and bigotry,
EDWARD KENNEDY I think most American workers want to make sure that when they have actually purchased health insura...
EDWARD KENNEDY We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think...
EDWARD KENNEDY If port security is not a top priority for our own government, how can we expect it to be a priority...
EDWARD KENNEDY I am proud that the Senate has come together to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigratio...
EDWARD KENNEDY Otis has a new lease on life. The revised report means the base will continue, but with new missions...
EDWARD KENNEDY We can only wonder what they don't want us to know.
EDWARD KENNEDY I'm deeply troubled by a narrow and cramped and perhaps even a mean-spirited view of the law that ap...
EDWARD KENNEDY narrow, cramped and mean-spirited.
EDWARD KENNEDY Americans will have the opportunity for the first time to hear Judge Roberts' views on the major iss...
EDWARD KENNEDY One of the things the American people are very concerned about is shabby work and that certainly is ...
EDWARD KENNEDY I think my candidate, John Kerry, has now demonstrated that he's a fighter,
EDWARD KENNEDY [Some Senate Democrats say Roberts should get tougher scrutiny now that he is being nominated for ch...
EDWARD KENNEDY As we approach the fourth anniversary of 9/11, President Bush should admit that he wrongly invoked t...
EDWARD KENNEDY must also determine whether (Roberts) has demonstrated a commitment to the constitutional principles...
EDWARD KENNEDY Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the...
EDWARD KENNEDY The chief justice is the most important judge in the country, with even more responsibility for the ...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's very clear what the priorities are. The Republicans are looking after the financial interests o...
EDWARD KENNEDY For two years, terrorist cells have been spreading like cancer cells. Any doctor who let that happen...
EDWARD KENNEDY Hopefully, this statement means we're finally nearing the end of this very long process to take guns...
EDWARD KENNEDY don't hold up, particularly since Roberts' clients were the American people.
EDWARD KENNEDY We need more than photo-ops and spin control to win this war. We need an effective plan to achieve o...
EDWARD KENNEDY We need our Republican colleagues to join us in giving education the high priority that it deserves ...
EDWARD KENNEDY [The senior senator from Massachusetts was equally gracious.] I've enjoyed working with the presiden...
EDWARD KENNEDY All of us deplore the acts of terrorism that we have seen in these last minutes, and our hearts reac...
EDWARD KENNEDY The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideol...
EDWARD KENNEDY She was the most beautiful rose of all.
EDWARD KENNEDY Well, here I don't go again.
EDWARD KENNEDY We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destructi...
EDWARD KENNEDY If they are so efficient, why do they need a handout? ... Talk about a fair playing field between th...
EDWARD KENNEDY You only have a couple weeks of winter left and there's a lot of gas in storage. It would have to be...
EDWARD KENNEDY I am disappointed that FDA waited until this late hour to address a legal question that could and sh...
EDWARD KENNEDY I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I a...
EDWARD KENNEDY This apparently is now a whitewash. The president has to come clean on this issue.
EDWARD KENNEDY I think my friend and colleague John Kerry is doing a great job, ... I think he was out early, he's ...
EDWARD KENNEDY a salute to bigotry.
EDWARD KENNEDY I do not believe that John Roberts has met the burden of proof necessary to be confirmed by the Sena...
EDWARD KENNEDY The House bill has a provision which would effectively dismantle Medicare.
EDWARD KENNEDY He did indicate that he's an older person, that he's learned more, that he thinks he's a wiser perso...
EDWARD KENNEDY I don't think it's wise for members to try and outline a strategy other than to make sure these hear...
EDWARD KENNEDY This bill has one motivation -- payback by the Bush administration and the Republican leadership of ...
EDWARD KENNEDY there are real and serious reasons to be deeply concerned about Judge Roberts' record.
EDWARD KENNEDY I am disappointed that FDA waited until this late hour to address a legal question that could and sh...
EDWARD KENNEDY I am disappointed that FDA waited until this late hour to address a legal question that could and sh...
EDWARD KENNEDY The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
EDWARD KENNEDY Come out of the rose garden.
EDWARD KENNEDY One of the few positive results of the Vietnam War is the irresistible momentum it gave Congress thi...
EDWARD KENNEDY There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican lead...
EDWARD KENNEDY Unfortunately, Mr. Chairman, there are real and serious reasons to be deeply concerned about Judge R...
EDWARD KENNEDY For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty...
EDWARD KENNEDY The way that political leaders move when they are facing challenges is back to their base.
EDWARD KENNEDY Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - w...
EDWARD KENNEDY The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this coun...
EDWARD KENNEDY Chief Justice Rehnquist served this country with the greatest distinction, ... I respected his leade...
EDWARD KENNEDY Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things abou...
EDWARD M. KENNEDY I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or...
EDWARD M. KENNEDY The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
EDWARD M. KENNEDY Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.
EDWARD M. KENNEDY This administration has broken faith with the people of America. They have squandered the immense go...
SENATOR EDWARD M KENNEDY The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically con...
RANDALL KENNEDY In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that ...
RANDALL KENNEDY As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've imme...
RANDALL KENNEDY Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or...
RANDALL KENNEDY I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a blac...
RANDALL KENNEDY The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome ...
RANDALL KENNEDY I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public ...
RANDALL KENNEDY The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, m...
RANDALL KENNEDY I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for yo...
RANDALL KENNEDY We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselv...
RANDALL KENNEDY As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining th...
RANDALL KENNEDY The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of th...
RANDALL KENNEDY Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the...
RANDALL KENNEDY In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale...
RANDALL KENNEDY Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genui...
RANDALL KENNEDY I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it persona...
RANDALL KENNEDY All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that...
RANDALL KENNEDY If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have t...
RANDALL KENNEDY Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
RANDALL KENNEDY In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly l...
JACKIE KENNEDY Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
JACKIE KENNEDY Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
JACKIE KENNEDY The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
JACKIE KENNEDY What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had familie...
JACKIE KENNEDY I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all da...
JACKIE KENNEDY Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a hor...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
JACKIE KENNEDY There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
JACKIE KENNEDY You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
JACKIE KENNEDY Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin...
JACKIE KENNEDY Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living al...
JACKIE KENNEDY I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
JACKIE KENNEDY There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
JACKIE KENNEDY The only routine with me is no routine at all.
JACKIE KENNEDY I want to live my life, not record it.
JACKIE KENNEDY I am a woman above everything else.
JACKIE KENNEDY The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to li...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have oft...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of governm...
ROBERT KENNEDY Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cy...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee ...
ROBERT KENNEDY The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our worl...
JACKIE KENNEDY Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm...
EUGENE KENNEDY 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our he...
ROBERT KENNEDY There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ...
EUGENE KENNEDY I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
ROSE KENNEDY I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or m...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
FLORYNCE KENNEDY The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that ge...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be opp...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ...
ETHEL KENNEDY