Edward M. Kennedy: “I want to commend the Defense Department for its immunization of smallpox.”

The Senate, the House of Representatives, and the President of the United States support Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

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.

The hope rises again.

The work goes on. The cause endures. The hope still lives. And the dream shall never die.