Edward M. Kennedy: “I understand some people will forever define me by that day, and that is their right.”

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

Congress will not and should not fund a program if it is unsuccessful.

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.

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.