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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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Edward Kennedy
Age: 77 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 22
Died: 2009
Died: August 25
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The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.
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Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.
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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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The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.
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People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or do. In such cases, like abortion or prayer or prohibition or sexual identity, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law.
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It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority.
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I don't think America can just drill itself out of its current energy situation. We don't need to destroy the environment to meet our energy needs. We need smart, comprehensive, common-sense approaches that balance the need to increase domestic energy supplies with the need to maximize energy efficiency.
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The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share it also protects those with whose views we disagree.
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I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.
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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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Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
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There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
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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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Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
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Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?
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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.
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Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
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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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In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs or working for less, trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge [Samuel] Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of the individual citizens. He has acted instead in favor of government, large corporations and other powerful interests.
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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.
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