The votes you’re going to have to cast, whether it’s guns or whether it’s abortion or whether it’s any one of the hot-button items, finishes you as a national political leader in this country. You just can’t do it. It’s not possible.
— Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), quoted in “The Battle for America 2008,” advising then Sen. Barack Obama to run for president sooner rather than later.
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