It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.
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ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental... ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha... ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan... ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ... ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ... ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec... ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th... ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi... ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl... ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno... ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive... ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ... ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's... ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi... ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i... ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ... ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge... ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear... ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t... ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati... ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes... ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. ROBERT MUGABE