Kennedy Quotes

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.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

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

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.

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

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

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

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

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the f

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling my

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.