A Quote by Ronald Reagan

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan
American - President
February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004

When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.'

Joe Scarborough

Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

Joe Scarborough

I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

Grace Poe

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

Tim Ryan

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

Bob Gunton

We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

Hillary Clinton

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

D. A. Pennebaker

I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

Warren Beatty

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

Harold H. Greene

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

Ben Bradlee

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

Charles Evers

How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.