Michele Swers, associate professor of government, on late Sen. Ted Kennedy's legacy of building bipartisan relationships within the Senate:

"Before you didn't have to travel home every weekend, so you developed these relationships and through that were able to build bipartisan legislation across the aisle. All these conservative congressional Republicans like Orrin Hatch wanted to work with Kennedy because of that."

Senator Ted Kennedy's Place in History

August 26, 2009, Politico