82+ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes Bridging Environmentalism and Politics in Presidential Race

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is an American environmental attorney, author, and activist. He has dedicated his career to advocating for environmental conservation and fighting against corporate pollution. As the son of Robert F. Kennedy, he carries on the legacy of his family's commitment to public service. Kennedy specializes in environmental law and has been involved in numerous high-profile cases, working tirelessly to protect natural resources and promote sustainable practices. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on leadership, education, freedom.

Top 10 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes

1. We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.
2. Well, I know … there’s strange things that happened, that don't seem. One of the buildings in New York came down that wasn't hit by a plane, so, you know, was it building seven or building 10?
3. Oliver Anthony has tapped into something that can unify our nation. Nearly everyone wants to reverse our decline, to end the corruption, to rebuild from the inside. Let’s talk about how to do that.
4. The climate crisis is being used to create totalitarian controls on society by the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates, and all of these megabillionaires.
5. We can redeem my uncle’s vision of our nation as an exemplar of peace, freedom, and service to humankind. His death will not have been in vain.
6. Donald Trump is probably the most successful debater in this country since Lincoln-Douglas.
7. Even in Hitler’s Germany you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.
8. There's a cushy socialism for the rich and this kind of brutal, merciless capitalism for the poor.
9. It's not something that I, you know, any part of it I endorse one way or the other, but I do think that it ought to be permissible in this country to question official narratives.
10. The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Short Quotes

• I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States.
• The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.
• The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt.
• In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.
• It is more important to be of service than successful.
• Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes About Democracy

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes About Political

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads... and with coal-burning utilities... — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Famous Quotes And Sayings

We will become a global advocate for rainforest preservation and marine restoration. We will rethink development policies that promised economic growth while ignoring ecological sustainability, and ended up delivering neither. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

This is a humanitarian crisis because of the understanding across the globe that we now have an open border here. There are people being drawn here. They're being abused. There's all kinds of horrific, terrible, terrible stories. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Every American should read this post mortem on Afghanistan. And every American politician —Republican and Democrat — and every Pentagon panjandrum who supported this catastrophe should hang their heads in shame. We learned nothing from Vietnam. The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting different results. By this definition, the entire retinue of American leadership is insane. This observation answers the question What on earth are we doing in Ukraine? The inmates are running the asylum. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

If the government has the capacity to shut down your bank account and starve you to death and get you thrown out of your home and make it so you can’t feed your children, it has the capacity to make slaves of all of us. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I can guarantee you, looking at this case, that I could prove that my uncle's death was caused by the CIA I have enough evidence right now, without any depositions, to go to prove that my uncle's death was the result of a conspiracy. And that the CIA was involved—not only in the original conspiracy but in the sixty-year coverup—and continues to maintain the coverup. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I abhor Russia's brutal and bloody invasion of that nation, but we must understand that our government has also contributed to its circumstances through repeated deliberate provocations of Russia going back to the 1990s. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The populist movement has been emerging from the left and the right. So many people have been betrayed by their leaders. They're tired of the uniparty. It's time for a leader who can give you back the America that was taken from you. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Thirty-five percent of Americans … are not making enough money to pay for basic human needs, and that means food, transportation and housing. and that means those Americans are sitting on the precipice of a cliff, that they're inches away from, or on top of, becoming homeless. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I invite you as a graduate to commit yourself, whatever your profession, to assist in building communities and to devote yourselves and the gifts you've been given, including your diploma from this school, to serving your communities. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

In 100% of the situations, good environmental policy is identical to good economic policy. If we want to measure our economy, this is how we ought to be measuring - based upon how it produces jobs and the dignity of jobs over the generations and how it preserves the value of the assets of our community. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

On mass shootings prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these events in our country and we've never seen them in human history, where people walk into a schoolroom of children or strangers and start shooting people. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

My primary platform is to cut the costs on the military. Again, what we were told was a peace dividend after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We were going to cut our military budget from about $600 billion a year to $200 billion a year. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

There is an argument that COVID-19 is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

What happened in the Ukraine is that the US supported essentially a coup d’etat in 2014, against the democratically-elected government of Ukraine. We have telephone call transcripts of Victoria Nuland, one of the neocons in the White House, handpicking the new cabinet that was hostile to the Soviet Union. If you look at that, and you put yourself in Russia’s position, and you say: Okay, the United States, our biggest enemy, is treating us as an enemy, has now taken over the government of a nation and made them hostile to us, and then started passing laws that are prejudicial to this giant Russian population. If Mexico did that and then started killing — they killed 14,000 Russians in Donbas, the Ukrainian government — if Mexico did that to expatriate Americans, we'd invade in a second. We have to put ourselves in the shoes of our opponents. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

In my campaign I’m not going to be talking a lot about climate. Why is that? Because climate has become a crisis like Covid that the Davos groups and other totalitarian elements in our society have used as a pretext for clamping down totalitarian controls. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

They wanted war as part of their strategic grand plan to destroy any country such as Russia that resists American imperial expansion. They only pretend to think it was unprovoked. They are lying to us, manufacturing consent for war. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Trump has his own technique that people like, and it is like going to a prize fight and you need practice. And that usually happens during a primary, and asking Biden not to debate during the primary is like asking a prize fighter to practice for his big bout by sitting on the couch and eating Chick-fil-A. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The Russians have repeatedly offered to settle. If you look at the Minsk accords, which the Russians offered to settle for, they look like a really good deal today. Let's be honest: it’s a US war against Russia, to essentially sacrifice the flower of Ukrainian youth in an abattoir of death and destruction for the geopolitical ambition of the neocons, oft-stated, of regime change for Vladimir Putin and exhausting the Russian military so that they can't fight anywhere else in the world. President Biden has said that was his intention — to get rid of Vladimir Putin. His Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, in April 2022, said that our purpose here is to exhaust the Russian army. What does that mean, exhaust? It means throwing Ukrainians at them. My son fought over there, side-by-side with the Ukrainians and we've sacrificed 300,000 of them. The commander of the special forces unit in the Ukraine, which is probably the most elite fighting force in Europe, has said 80% of his troops are dead or are wounded and they cannot rebuild the unit. Right now, the Russians are killing Ukrainians at a ratio of either 1:5 or 1:8, depending on what data you believe. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I don't know what happened on 9/11. I mean, I understand what the official explanation for 9/11 is, I understand that there is dissent. I have not looked into it. I haven't examined it. I'm not a good person to talk to about it. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

America should be a haven of freedom and prosperity, open to law-abiding migrants who will contribute to our society. However, immigration must proceed in an orderly, lawful manner. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power. China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon's short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Texas is right. Biden’s failure to secure the border leaves states no choice but to take matters into their own hands. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I will end the efforts to move toward a central bank digital currency. I'll do everything I can to maintain paper cash as legal tender in this country. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative." — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. Corporations are good because they drive our economy, they encourage people to assemble wealth and to risk it and then create jobs. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist. You send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The law in the United States, in every jurisdiction until about 1876, was that if a factory put smoke into the air, even one day a year, and it got onto a neighbor's property, the neighbor had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit. They are contemptible human beings. I wish there were a law you could punish them with. I don’t think there is a law that you can punish those politicians under. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Life Lessons by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

1. The power of advocacy: Kennedy's work demonstrates the impact that passionate advocacy can have in protecting the environment and holding corporations accountable for their actions.
2. The importance of standing up for what you believe in: Kennedy's unwavering commitment to environmental justice serves as a reminder to never shy away from fighting for causes that align with your values, even in the face of adversity.
3. The need for collective action: Kennedy emphasizes the significance of coming together as a community to address environmental challenges. His work encourages individuals to collaborate and take collective action to create lasting change for a sustainable future.