"Should I be so privileged as to be confirmed, we will make sure our tax dollars support healthy foods. We will scrutinize the chemical additives in our food supply."
"We will remove financial conflicts of interest from our agencies. We will create an honest, unbiased, gold standard science at HHS, accountable to the president, to Congress, and to the American peopl..."
"We will reverse the chronic disease epidemic and put the nation back on the road to good health."
"I intend to devote the appropriate resources to preventing pandemics. That’s essential for my job."
"We shouldn't be subsidizing people to eat poison."
"If you wanna eat a Big Mac, you ought to, but McDonald's ought to be incentivized to use beef tallow fat..."
"I believe in freedom of choice. If you wanna eat Twinkies, you ought to be able to eat 'em..."
"We want to do a number of things but not take away choice from people. The one place that I would say that we really need to change policies is food stamps and school lunches. We shouldn't be subsidiz..."
"That's what I'm saying. If you wanna eat a Big Mac, you ought to, but McDonald's ought to be incentivized to use beef tallow fat when it's cooking its Big Macs so that they're good for people, rather ..."
"If you've been involved in good science, you've got nothing to worry about. If you care about public health, you've got nothing to worry about."
"I am pro-safety."
"All of my kids are vaccinated, and I believe vaccines have a critical role in health care."