Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes

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  • Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America.

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  • 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.

    "Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Episode 2". "Climate One" with Greg Dalton, www.prx.org.
  • These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts.

    Interview with David Kupfer, November 2006.
  • In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

    "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed by David Kupfer". The Progressive magazine, November 2006.
  • The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

    "The Last Mountain". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. June 3, 2011.
  • 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.

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  • 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.

    Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.
  • The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

  • Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit. They are contemptible human beings. I wish there were a law you could punish them with. I don’t think there is a law that you can punish those politicians under.

  • It is more important to be of service than successful.

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

  • Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.

  • We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism.

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    "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed by David Kupfer". The Progressive magazine, November 2006.
  • The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

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

  • I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.

    Interview with David Kupfer, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.
  • We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.

  • 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.

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  • Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.

  • One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.

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

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

  • Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  • 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.

  • Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

    "'For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind'". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.
  • While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

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

  • The law in the United States, in every jurisdiction until about 1876, was that if a factory put smoke into the air, even one day a year, and it got onto a neighbor's property, the neighbor had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that.

    "Crimes Against Nature". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2004.
  • You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  • Born: January 17, 1954
  • Occupation: Radio host