When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserve... MITT ROMNEY My daughter loves romances. She's a Ph.D student at George Washington University, and when my fi... ANN MAXWELL I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times... DARIN STRAUSS I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice. AMY KLOBUCHAR When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams s... TONY GWYNN I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy. SAM BROWNBACK He never stood out. Even today, we were hoping maybe for a top-10 finish. We were telling Ted to be ... BILL LIGETY There was nervous apprehension. When you first go back after you've been out for a while, and the re... MICHAEL MUNIZ Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspi... BIRCH BAYH When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ... MATTHEW QUICK What stood out for me, and I think for everybody, was the fuel expense. It was expected to be higher... CAMERON DOERKSEN My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly... PATTI SMITH In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public ... CHUCK TODD I was just fortunate I was able to throw when I came back, ... After Ted Williams ran into a wall (d... AL KALINE I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived ... DARIN STRAUSS That kind of leadership is what I was looking for in a chief. CARLOS PALACIOS That kind of leadership is what I was looking for in a chief. CITY MANAGER CARLOS PALACIOS I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gera... HELEN THOMAS I was looking for a rebound in imports as some of the activity along the Gulf Coast came back to nor... TIM EVANS I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fas... JAMES TOBIN I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washingto... LAWRENCE BENDER There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself... ROBERT SMITH The first time I met (Kennedy) was when he came to the Post for a meeting with the editorial board. ... ARTHUR MASSOLO I came out with the bases loaded. Came out looking for a big hit, and I came through. BRUCE THOMPSON I came to the pharmaceutical industry for many reasons, and one of the reasons was I wanted to have,... KAREN HOUSEKNECT I'll either play for Huggins or Andy Kennedy. When I came here, that's who I intended to play for. S... ERIC HICKS Looking back, I was a very good kid, very studious and all. But I would always come out with a quip ... FRED WILLARD I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit... CANDACE BUSHNELL Let me say again that I have not read your book. And one of the reasons I didn't was because I wante... KEITH BEAUCHAMP I really honestly wasn't looking for any results. I was just trying to get in there and help out the... ANDREW ROMINE I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Te... ANGUS KING Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the ... CHRISTINE PELOSI And I could never run out of my subject matter - I only exercise my rhymes in times when the subject... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the... DAVID KUO The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get... SARAH DESSEN This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of... SARAH DESSEN When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and wh... JOE SCARBOROUGH Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do t... EDWIN STARR I came back today looking for a cuckoo clock and I did find that stuffed in. LANCE QUAM I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewher... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin... AKHIL SHARMA When exactly did Ted Kennedy become Jabba the Hutt? He's not a macy's day float! Bring him down it's... ROBIN WILLIAMS John Kerry was the big winner in Iowa. Ted Kennedy introduced Kerry as the 'comeback kid.' That used... JAY LENO I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book... JUDY BLUME When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forc... JAY-Z I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I... WOODY NORRIS Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a 10 o'clock sho... LOUIE ANDERSON I know I'm biased because I'm his agent, but Ted Washington is probably the best nose tackle in the ... ANGELO WRIGHT I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities o... ANNE STEVENSON Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my ... RICK PERLSTEIN He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long tim... HOWIE CARR Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Te... CAMILLE PAGLIA I pulled the gun when I stood up, took two steps down the hallway and fired. His back was towards me... DAVID LUDWIG When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. ... JOHN W. GARDNER When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the US. g... JOHN W. GARDNER One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing pro... ELLEN POTTER My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical ske... MONTEL WILLIAMS When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wa... NOAH HAWLEY In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of ... MICHAEL KINSLEY The most we gained from it is seeing Kennedy. Not the physical part, but the myth part. It was a cha... DAVID PERNO My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for... DAMIAN LEWIS I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times... BILLY CRYSTAL I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart brok... BRYAN CALLEN I'm going to be like a kid in a sweet shop. I'll be taking my autograph book and I won't quite know ... ANDREW FLINTOFF been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and J... ZELL MILLER [• When Ryan Franklin worked a full count on Adam Kennedy with runners on first and third in the s... RYAN FRANKLIN When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling;... JUSTINA MACHADO I've done the Kennedy Center many times. I've sang for Marian Anderson. I've sang for Ma... ARETHA FRANKLIN This is Texas. We don't have Walter Cronkite and Ted Kennedy whining about their back yards, JERRY PATTERSON When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't ... CHARLEY PRIDE I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD In elementary school, I read every single space book in the library about all the planets, about neb... SUNIL NAGARAJ I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not... KAUI HART HEMMINGS We were just looking for the perfect spot and this piece of land came available - a full acre. And y... BRENDA MAGNON Keanu thought he was Bill and I thought I was Ted. Then the assistant came out, and it was the oppos... ALEX WINTER I was looking for a chance to go out and be active in the community. I always wanted to be around ba... MATT LILLEBERG First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prev... BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal ... ETHAN CANIN When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chi... PETER DIAMANDIS When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gor... RICK RIORDAN I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying dram... JAMES CALLIS It was a funny race. After getting knocked around in the swim and being so far back, I was looking f... BEVAN DOCHERTY He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. VICTOR HUGO You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a b... DEE BROWN I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental pa... RIC FLAIR After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when th... MICKY DOLENZ When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,... STELIOS HAJI-IOANNOU
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