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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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Edward Kennedy
Age: 77 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 22
Died: 2009
Died: August 25
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Massachusetts
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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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Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American.
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If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren.
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In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.
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Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
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The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.
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Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
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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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As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for our citizens. Even one justice can deeply affect the rights and liberties of the American people.
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I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.
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The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and the worst may be yet to come. Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management.
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It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
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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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As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.
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I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.
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Floating screw - that's what people used to call me.
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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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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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