Waterkeeper Alliance
Pace University, 78 North Broadway, Environmental Litigation Clinic, White Plains, NY 10603Phone 914-422-4410 | Fax 914-422-4437 | Email lomalley@keeper.org
Quotes
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“Pork farmers are … a greater threat than Al Qaeda or Osama Bin Laden.” — Waterkeeper Alliance president Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., at the Hog Summit in Clear Lake, Iowa
“He [RFK Jr.] is very reckless. He’s assumed an arrogance above his intellectual stature.” — Robert Boyle, after Robert F. Kennedy hired a convicted environmental felon as the group’s chief scientific analyst, as quoted in the New York Post, June 22, 2000
“You don’t hire a child molester to run a nursery school. It’s a conflict of interest.” — Riverkeeper founder Robert H. Boyle in the New York Times (Nov. 5, 2000) after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hired a convicted environmental felon as the organization’s chief scientific analyst
“We will march across this country and we will bring these kind of lawsuits against every single pork factory in America if we have to…. Whatever it takes to win.” — Kennedy, in the Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2001
“We have attorneys now who have money and they know what they’re doing. They are the best in the country and we are going to put an end to this industry.” — NPR’s Weekend Edition
“Why don’t we put them out of business?” — Charles Speer, one of the attorneys in charge of recruiting other lawyers to attack the pork industry, quoted in the Wilmington (NC) Morning Star, January 12, 2001
“We’re starting with hogs. After we get done with the hogs, then we’re gonna go after the other ones.” — Waterkeeper Alliance president Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., December 6, 2000
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