Quote

Floating screw - that's what people used to call me.

Edward Kennedy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Kennedy
Age: 77 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 22
Died: 2009
Died: August 25
Autobiographer
Lawyer
Politician
Dorchester
Massachusetts
Edward Moore Kennedy
Edward Moore Ted Kennedy
Edward Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
Screw
Screws
Floating
Call
Used
People

More quotes by Edward Kennedy

Image
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.
Edward Kennedy
Image
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.
Edward Kennedy
Image
The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.
Edward Kennedy
Image
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.
Edward Kennedy
Image
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
Edward Kennedy
Image
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
Edward Kennedy
Image
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.
Edward Kennedy
Image
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward Kennedy
Image
She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.
Edward Kennedy
Image
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.
Edward Kennedy
Image
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.
Edward Kennedy
Image
We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court.
Edward Kennedy
Image
As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.
Edward Kennedy
Image
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.
Edward Kennedy
Image
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
Edward Kennedy
Image
We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest.
Edward Kennedy
Image
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.
Edward Kennedy
Image
We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Edward Kennedy
Image
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
Edward Kennedy
Image
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.
Edward Kennedy