Quotations of Chairman Teddy:
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." (sic)
"If a legislator is 'safe' from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year, the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all. -Senator Edward M. Kennedy,
Decisions for a Decade, published in 1968
At a Washington restaurant, bombed out of his mind:
"I'm came in not wearing any pants, and I'm not leaving wearing any pants."
His excuse about Miss Kopechne's death:
"And when I returned, Mary Jo and the car were gone."
"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? -- Senator Ted "CHAPPAQUIDDICK" Kennedy, 1973
"[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words." -- Ted Kennedy speaking of the US Constitution at Boston Latin, April 29, 2002
"I seek the presidency with no illusions"
"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
"Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things."
"They don't call me Tyrannosaurus Sex for nothing." —Ted Kennedy
"She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night — ah, life." —Sen. Ted Kennedy, speaking about his then-fiancee, Victoria Reggie
Only in MA would somebody vote for Teddy. Well, let's not forget Cook County in IL- they would, too.