Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.

If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.

You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt.

We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market.

Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.

In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

Don't get mad get even.

The only sin is pride.

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.