“In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he emb...” — Chuck Todd Quote

“In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.”

“One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were doing everything they could politically to turn him into a punch line post-Chappaquiddick. And the idea of Ted Kennedy - rather than the actual man - dominated his political legacy through the early '90s.”

“The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.”

“We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.”

“Metaphor is embodied in language.”