With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race.
Interpretation
This quote expresses hope for a change in political discourse and unity under Barack Obama's leadership.
Edward Kennedy's quote emphasizes the significance of Barack Obama's presidency as a transformative moment in American politics. He suggests that with Obama's leadership, there will be a shift away from divisive and misleading political tactics, particularly those that exploit racial tensions. This reflects a desire for a more honest and inclusive political environment where citizens can work together towards common goals.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the impact of political leadership on social issues.
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.
We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.
We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.
Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.
If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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