“People fight to get in the Senate and then they’re afraid. We fight to get these positions and then don’t want to do anything with them. And Ted understood the only point of running for office was to get something done — not to posture; not to sit there worrying about the next election or the polls — to take risks.”
— President Obama, quoted by the Washington Post, at an event to dedicate an institute honoring the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and his vision of the U.S. Senate.
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