Robert F. Kennedy was active in government serving as America's Attorney General and as New York's Senator. In both of his offices Robert Kennedy helped to save America from crime, segregation, and war and to help shape it for the better by helping the underprivileged, the young, the old, and the racial minorities including Native Americans. The reasons why he did this can be summarized in one of his quotes.

"Some men see things as they are and say, `Why"' I dream of

things that never were and say, `Why not'." (Robert F. Kennedy)

His outlook on life, which can be summarized in this quote helped him accomplish these tremendously positive goals. This quote explains the difference between optimism and pessimism in a simplistic manner and in it Robert Kennedy stats that he himself is an optimist. Pessimists are represented as the men who see things and...