Robert Kennedy Quotes - Page 6

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• I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it's Resurrection City

  Robert Kennedy

  Moving, Cities, White

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• It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dirty, Ideas, Politics

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• If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.

  Robert Kennedy

  Exercise, Blow, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

  Robert Kennedy

  New York, Lying, California

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• All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Strong, Men, Justice For All

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dog, Kids, Men

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• I'm tired of chasing people.

  Robert Kennedy

  Tired, People, I'm Tired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

  Robert Kennedy

  Government, Water, Done

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• It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Powerful, Passion, Self Confidence

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

  Robert Kennedy

  Rights, Black, Movement

  Remark during testimony of Floyd McKissick before a Senate subcommittee of which Kennedy was a member (December 8, 1966); reported in "Federal Role in Urban Affairs", hearings before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, 89th Congress, 2d session, part 11, (p. 2312), 1967.

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• The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.

  Robert Kennedy

  Military, Long, Priorities

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Ambition, Men

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• Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

  Robert Kennedy

  Baseball, Fighting, People

  "Profiles in Courage". Book by John F. Kennedy Jr., p.9, 1964.

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• GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Play, Gdp

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

  Robert Kennedy

  Assets

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• Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

  Robert Kennedy

  Important, Lawyer, Attributes

  1962 Speech at the University of San Francisco Law School, 29 Sep.

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• Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.

  Robert Kennedy

  People, Diversity, Goal

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Sight, Our Society, Facts

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• I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

  Robert Kennedy

  Family, Children, Struggle

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman, Jeffrey Shulman (1988). “Robert Kennedy, in his own words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy years”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• [The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

  Robert Kennedy

  Government, Effort, Priorities

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