Political Quotes

“Mr. President, on a totally unrelated subject, this week two Senate committees will hold confirmation hearings for Robert Kennedy, Jr., President Trump's nominee to be Secretary for Health and Human Services. Every day, HHS, this major government Agency, makes life-and-death decisions. That Agency oversees the Food and Drug Administration to make sure that what we eat is safe, to make sure the drugs that are sold to us are effective and safe as well. The National Institutes of Health is in this Agency. It is the premiere medical research agency in the world--in the world. Some $40 billion spent each year to find cures, to find new drugs, to move us toward a better America. And the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, their job is not as flashy as some, but it is so important. What they do is to make sure whatever is going around, as they say, doesn't hit our families. We count on them every single day. It is a big job that requires responsible leadership and honesty overseeing an Agency that has these critical Agencies of government. Now there may be some certain areas where we agree, such as curbing drug ads or improving the quality of the food supply. And I know Robert Kennedy, Jr., and I have worked with him in the past. I can work with him on those issues. But on the fundamentals, the basic question of his leadership is troublesome. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is dangerously--dangerously-- unqualified and entirely irresponsible in his judgment.…”