Edward M. Kennedy: “The hope rises again, and the dream lives on.”

We're going to come back. As you know, you know, it took for Africans-Americans, for gay Americans, for women, the struggle for equal rights and justice took many, many years and so, too, it is in the disability rights movement.

What we face is, above all, a moral issue that at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.

We did have eight Republicans and I take my hat off to them because they had to face very stiff pressure by the far right not to join with the -- with the Democrats to vote this treaty.

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.