Robert Kennedy Quotes
14 quotes by 10 authors
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My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after…
— Wallace Carothers
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They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
— Sirhan Sirhan
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Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
— David Kay
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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…
— Jack Newfield
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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…
— Jack Newfield
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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…
— Jack Newfield
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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,…
— Jack Newfield
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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,…
— Jack Newfield
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
— Ken Livingstone
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In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and…
— Patti Smith
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I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the…
— Eric Holder
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Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to…
— Elisabeth Shue
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The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I morned and I cried like many of our citizens did. As…
— John Lewis
Who Wrote These Robert Kennedy Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 14 Robert Kennedy Quotes as follows: