Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Quotes

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

It's appropriate for people to pursue their profit motive in business. If you want to change that, you're going against human nature. But when it comes to setting the rules or creating the institutions, then you should have the general interest at heart.

… markets don't look after social needs. Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

They go together, a strong environment and a strong economy. In Florida the environment is the economy.

What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.

We can't green the economy without the power of the free-market system.

The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine.

We will have no jobs if we have no planet.

In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

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.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.