Edward M. Kennedy: “I am troubled like other members of the Committee of having three nominees who are controversial.”

In Robert Bork's America, there is no room at the end for blacks and no place in the constitution for women. And in our America, there should be no seat on the Supreme Court for Robert Bork.

This board has undermined collective bargaining at every turn, putting the power of the law behind lawbreakers, not law victims.

And I won't let you down. I won't let you down. I won't let you down, Massachusetts.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us, what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world.