I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.
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
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 neighbour's property, the neighbour had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that. - 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
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
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
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
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
These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birth right 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
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 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
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
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
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. - 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
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
When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger profits and to increase the value of its shares. If its actions are not accomplishing those objectives, the shareholders can sue the executives, and sue them successfully, because it is illegal for them to act on behalf of any other reason than increasing the value of their shares. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way that they were created and the way we want them to function to increase prosperity in the market. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business. - 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
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
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
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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