Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Patriotic, Trying, Care

• 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.

  Running, Agency, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

• Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Patriotic, Thinking, Opposites

• 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.

  Kids, Hunting, Kayaking

  "The Last Mountain". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. June 3, 2011.

• 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.

  Bird, Sake, Environment

• 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.

  Rights, Toxic Waste, America

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