"Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me."
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Robert Kennedy quotes (page 7 of 8)
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"I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it's Resurrection City"
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"The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile."
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"Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children."
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"Your life can be anything you want it to be."
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"A life without criticism is not worth living."
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"Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force."
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"In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie."
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"If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow."
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"Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'"
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"Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic"
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"I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind."
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"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me."
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"Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities."
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"Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer."
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"After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all."
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"The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem."
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"I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive."
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"Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future."
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"It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business."
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