#kennedy

It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact with them. They were a unit. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#came #contact #feeling #had #heightened

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#asks #continue #guided #i #kennedy

President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#counterparts #country #day #equal #equal pay

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so. ↗

— Lindy Boggs

#connotation #dallas #dangerous #devoted #following

I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for. ↗

— Howie Carr

#against #alive #anything #around #cape

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight. ↗

— Howie Carr

#caught #democrats #fight #haven #held

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

#blocking #care #comprehensive #deliberately #fact

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#first #first time #front #had #headlines

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#charm #explain #i #i can #jack

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#advantage #behind #child #congress #created