Jack Newfield Quotes

• Sus enemigos decían que [Robert Kennedy] estaba consumido por una ambición egoísta, un oportunista despiadado que explotaba la leyenda de su hermano. Pero era demasiado apasionado y demasiado vulnerable para ser nunca el operador frío y seguro que era su hermano.

  Jack Newfield

  Brother, Selfish, Ambition

  Jack Newfield (1969). “Robert Kennedy: a memoir”

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• Robert Kennedy se identificaba con las personas, no con los datos, las instituciones o las teorías. La pobreza era para él un rostro negro concreto, no una carpeta manila llena de estadísticas.

  Jack Newfield

  Adversity, Data, People

  Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.48, Nation Books

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• All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

  Jack Newfield

  Crush, Schooled

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• I don't fight for nobody else because Don King has made me money. Yet I hear people saying Don King is exploiting me. I made $15.5 million with Don. How would you like to be exploited and make $15.5 million?

  Jack Newfield

  Kings, Fighting, People

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• But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

  Jack Newfield

  Fire, Ice, Different

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• It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

  Jack Newfield

  Brother, Men, Thinking

  Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.29, Nation Books

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• I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

  Jack Newfield

  Kings, Boxing, Stealing

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• He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

  Jack Newfield

  Vanity, Boxing, Insecurity

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• Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

  Jack Newfield

  Sober, Judgment, Controversial

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