Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes About Democracy

• Las empresas son algo bueno. Pero las corporaciones no deberían dirigir nuestro gobierno... Han dirigido la economía estadounidense desde su fundación, y la prosperidad de nuestro país depende en gran medida del libre funcionamiento de las empresas. Pero algunas empresas no quieren mercados libres ni democracia. Quieren beneficios.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Country, Government

• La forma de conseguir que la democracia funcione es informando al público.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, Way, Function

• 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.

  Voting, Democracy, Citizens

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Democracy, United States, Global Warming

• 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.

  Land, Democracy, Assets

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

  Land, America, Air

• 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.

  Democracy, Firsts, Climate

• 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.

  Technology, Focus, Democracy

• American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, World, Paradigm

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