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Kennedy Quotes by Jack Newfield
- His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too…
- Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of…
- All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing…
- But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled,…
- It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do,…
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- The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — J. G. Ballard
- In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this… — Lewis Black
- The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the… — Jimmy Carter
- Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now,… — Charles Schumer
- The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in… — Robert Crippen
- Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we… — Bob Dylan
- Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy
- I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice. — Amy Klobuchar
- I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get… — Jim McDermott
- Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good… — Norman Thomas
- My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Wallace Carothers