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Ted Kennedy Quotes

...the words of young Ted Kennedy, Jr., who lost his leg to cancer. "People are taught we should look perfect," he said. "I wondered who would ever go out with a kid with one leg.
- Erma Bombeck

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
- Sam Brownback

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
- Jimmy Carter

Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
- Adam Clymer

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
- Adam Clymer

Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
- Orrin Hatch

Question for your life: If Ted Kennedy made it to heaven, do you think he's pleased with the fact that Jesus can turn water into wine?
- Jarod Kintz

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
- Michael Kinsley

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.
- Amy Klobuchar

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'
- John Mccain

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.
- Camille Paglia

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