Robert F. Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Address at the University of Pennsylvania (6 May 1964), quoted in [http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/05/about-one-fifth-of-people-are-against.html The Philadelphia Inquirer (7 May 1964) , 1964

In the words of the old saying, every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

The Pursuit of Justice pt. 3, "Eradicating Free Enterprise in Organized Crime," (1964) , 1964

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he'd been through, never worried about it.... I thought it would be me.

After hearing that his brother John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, TX, on 22 November 1963, as reported by Ed Guthman in Peter Collier & David Horowitz's The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984), , p. 249 , 1984

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

"I Remember, I Believe," The Pursuit of Justice (1964) , 1964

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

"Extremism, Left and Right," The Pursuit of Justice, pt. 3 (1964) , 1964