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Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for over 40 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-continuously-serving senator in United States history, having served there for almost 47 years. For many years, Ted Kennedy was the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family; he was also the last surviving, longest-living, and youngest son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. He was the youngest brother of John F. Kennedy—the 35th President of the United States—and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.

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Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Deceit, Democracy, Hype, Integrity, Lying, Veins

We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay off Americans and then fill their jobs by bringing in workers from overseas. Any U. S. employer who wishes to hire from abroad - even for temporary jobs - should have to recruit U. S. workers first. And we should end the unskilled immigration that competes with young Americans just entering the job market.

Importation, Job, Jobs, Law, Overseas, Should Have

I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity.

America, Civility, Democracy, Diversity, Nation

Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either on the physical and emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else. I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately.

Doctors, Emotional, Placing, Regard, Report, Responsibility

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Average, System, Tax, Taxes, Taxpayers

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U. S. management.

America, Chambers, Management, Terrorism, Under

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

Constitution, Disagree, Doe, Protect, Views

In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.

Citizens, Giant, Giants, Growth, Legal, Responsible

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Care, Politics, Privilege, Right, Health

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Cause, Dream, Hope, Lives, Political, Work

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

Bigger, Demand, Government, People

I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

America, Dirty, Fundamentalist, Humanist, People

If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?

Exercise, Views, Order, Say, Protect

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

Arises, Mind, Names, Public, Views

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Labor, Labor Day, Mistake, Movement, Organized

My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply 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. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. '

Brother, Dream, Pray, War

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

Ending Poverty, Living, Poverty, Should, Works

Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish.

Advice, Call, People, Phone, Phones, Privacy

My father lifted me up in his strong gentle arms and said something I will never forget. He said, "I know you can do it. There is nothing that you can't do. We're going to climb that hill together even if it takes us all day. " And at age 12 losing your leg pretty much seems like the end of the world. But as I climbed onto his back and we flew down the hill that day, I knew he was right. I knew I was going to be OK. You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. And it is what we do with that loss - our ability to transform it into a positive event.

Climbed, Father, Loss, Pretty, Strong, World

One question we must consider today is how we can take action to unify our nation, heal racial division, end poverty and give real-life meaning to the constitutional mandate that there be equal protection under law.

Division, Equal, Giving, Meaning Of Life, Racial, Today

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