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Ted Kennedy was an American politician and longtime U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. One of the most influential members of the Kennedy family, his career spanned nearly five decades. He became known for his advocacy on healthcare, education, and social justice issues. Here are 132 of his quotes:
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Ted Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy, despite his long career in the U.S. Senate, is still often known as Teddy, the diminutive attached to him as the youngest brother in his powerful family. The nickname persists because he was blessed and cursed by the gift of years that let him lead a full and well-publicized life that could only diminish him against the gargantuan mythology grown up around his murdered brothers John and Robert.
Ted Kennedy
I think Kennedy just saw Carter as sort of a backwoods nobody who was going to be gone, you know, in a couple of months. And he really had contempt for him as having not a lot of accomplishments and not a lot of pedigree. So they were just from alien worlds. I think that played a - worlds that were alien to each other. And I think that played a lot into why they couldn't understand each other.
Ted Kennedy
I know what he's capable of - he's capable of bigness that we didn't see that in general election campaign that was run. I would hope that's the path that he goes down. His political epitaph is going to be dictated by how he conducts himself in next six or 13 years. Will he be seen as a giant of the Senate who came back from a presidential loss like Scoop Jackson, Robert Taft or Ted Kennedy, or will he go down a different path? Only he can decide it.
Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
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Occupation: American Politician
Born: February 22, 1932
Died: August 25, 2009
Quotes count: 132
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