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She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

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Edward Kennedy
Age: 77 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 22
Died: 2009
Died: August 25
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If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.
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I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.
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Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
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I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.
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If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.
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I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.
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What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
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There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.
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It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.
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I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
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Floating screw - that's what people used to call me.
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We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
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Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in the Armed Forces. ... Legal immigrants do not seek to cross the border, or overstay their visas. They come here the right way. ... And, by and large, they are here as the result of reunifying families.
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That is a pretty big deal from a commitment standpoint.
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Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
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Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.
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I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.
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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.
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We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.
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