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VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT/TEXT: President Obama Eulogizes Ted Kennedy

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The finest legislator I ever worked with was Ted Kennedy.

Senator Alan K. Simpson | Republican [WY]

 Well don't throw anything now, because we're not talking about philosophy or party. The finest legislator I ever worked with was Ted Kennedy. He had a magnificent staff, he even had a parliamentarian on that staff of his. So when you were in the legislative arena and you were bringing your lunch and staying late, you wanted to get Ted on your side or least use some of his expertise. I would go to him sometimes early on and say look, you'll have to trust me, what the hell do I do right now to move this bill? Boy I'll tell you he had ways to do it and as you can see he uses those skills on issues in which I was totally on the other side. I can't remember them all there were so many. We were never on the same side. But he is a legislator.

Quotation from an interview with Harry Kreisler in 1997

Ted Kennedy Quotation: My brother need not be idealized....

Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy | Democrat 1932-2009

Taken from his eulogy to his brother Bobby, it can now be said of him.

My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others, will someday come to pass for all the world.

Quotation: American Rhetoric - Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy, June 1968
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