Edward M. Kennedy: “Senator Edward Kennedy wants officials in Massachusetts to make it easier for his senate seat to be temporarily filled…”

I have come here tonight to stand with you, to change America, to restore its future, to rise to our best ideals, and to elect Barack Obama president of the United States.

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.

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

I understand some people will forever define me by that day, and that is their right.