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I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It may be Baghdad by the Bay to you, but to me it's Resurrection City

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Robert Kennedy
Age: 42 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 20
Died: 1968
Died: June 6
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'
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[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.
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Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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