If you search the annals for moving/timely speeches you will find many of them spoken by Edward Kennedy. This post is for anyone to post one or more of their favorite lines from a speech he gave.
I particularly like this one he gave in 1980. He succinctly draws a line between faith and facts when debating public policy.
“…in applying religious values, we must respect the integrity of public debate.
In that debate, faith is no substitute for facts. Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons. They have every right to argue that any negotiation with the Soviets is wrong, or that any accommodation with them sanctions their crimes, or that no agreement can be good enough and therefore all agreements only increase the chance of war. I do not believe that, but it surely does not violate the standard of fair public debate to say it. What does violate that standard, what the opponents of the nuclear freeze have no right to do, is to assume that they are infallible, and so any argument against the freeze will do, whether it is false or true.”
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In one of his Daily Show interviews (2006) he says we have "the best congress money can buy." He was talking about campaign finance reform, of course. But, I would be extremely surprised if he hasn't capitalized on his position in the Senate. In fact, in the same interview from which I quoted him, he was promoting a book. I'll investigate and put an addendum.
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