"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is." --Sen. Ted Kennedy
"Well, here I don't go again" --Sen. Ted Kennedy, on not running for president in 1988
"Finally, after all of these years, when someone says, 'Who does that damn Kennedy think he is,' there’s only a one in three chance they're talking about me." --Sen. Ted Kennedy, on his nephew and his son serving in Congress
"They don't call me Tyrannosaurus Sex for nothing!" --Sen. Edward Kennedy, spoken while wearing a Barney the Dinosaur costume at his 1993 office Christmas party
"She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night -- ah, life." --Sen. Ted Kennedy, speaking about his then-fiancee, Victoria Reggie

