Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'

[The] American temptation [is] to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. [It] consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise ... the bleeding will not end.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

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.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say Why not?