The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.


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ROBERT F. KENNEDY
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulge...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn't g...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well a...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I&...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mis...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost m...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk sci...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Obama came in really wanting to change things, but he hit a wall of corporate money, oil and coal mo...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Lots of countries, like Israel, live with terrorism every day, and it doesn't impact their integ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there'...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The prob...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war bet...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was in many American vaccines until 2003. It was rem...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I'm very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of l...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
PBS was not a left-wing ideology. I mean, Air America was, but PBS was not. But anybody who tells th...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the For...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute t...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, b...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never wer...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
He knows all the facts, and he's against all the solutions.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Justice delayed is democracy denied.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
It is more important to be of service than successful.
ROBERT KENNEDY JR.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a m...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
There hasn't been a nuclear plant proposed since 1973 ... and the reason for it is because it is jus...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against in...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, ...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"N...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY