Political Quotes

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The Public Record

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration; environmental lawyer and 2024 independent presidential candidate.

Quotes by year · 20082026808 total · peak 2025 (472)
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  1. The nation is ready for change and recognizes that this is a unique inflection moment.29 sources2026lailluminator.com
  2. States that receive federal Medicaid funding must demonstrate that every dollar meets federal requirements."8 sources2026arkansasadvocate.com
  3. Every school meal should make a child healthier.3 sources2026iowacapitaldispatch.com
  4. We’re trying to get information about those two casualties.2 sources2026penncapital-star.com
  5. The press is all covering this [as] if those measles deaths actually happened, and nobody is doing any critical inquiry to find out – we’re trying to find out whether those deaths actually happened, and we can’t figure that out.2 sources2026penncapital-star.com
  6. The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor’s hopeful staffers.2 sources2026huffpost.com
Aug 30, 2026

The performance was a replay of the Democrats' COVID playbook: fearmongering, misinformation, finger-pointing, and the weaponization of infectious disease fears for political gain.

foxnews.com
Aug 28, 2026

The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor’s hopeful staffers.

huffpost.com
Aug 27, 2026

Kennedy has a long history as a vaccine skeptic.

npr.org
Aug 26, 2026

We are actually restoring faith in the public health agencies so people will take our advice, and our advice is that people should get the measles vaccination.

penncapital-star.com
Aug 26, 2026

The press is all covering this [as] if those measles deaths actually happened, and nobody is doing any critical inquiry to find out – we’re trying to find out whether those deaths actually happened, and we can’t figure that out.

penncapital-star.com
Aug 26, 2026

Vaccines are medical interventions … intended to permanently alter your immune system, and so parents ought to have a say in that, and the decision should be between the parents and the physician and not the state.

penncapital-star.com
Aug 26, 2026

children go to sleep, and three months later, their brain is gone. This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country.

thebulwark.com
Aug 25, 2026

We've gotten rid of the nine synthetic-based food dyes.

cbsnews.com
Aug 25, 2026

We will support patient autonomy, require informed consent and shared decision-making, and shift the standard of care toward prevention, transparency and a more holistic approach to mental health.

thebulwark.com
Aug 22, 2026

That's how we Make America Healthy Again.

huffpost.com
Aug 22, 2026

Trump Derangement Syndrome has so debilitated [Burnett] that she has abandoned both common sense and basic arithmetic.

huffpost.com
Aug 22, 2026

The funding aligns with the administration’s healthcare priorities.

whitehouse.gov
Aug 22, 2026

Our goal is simple: help Americans reclaim their kitchens, cook healthy food without breaking the bank, and stock their pantries with high-quality ingredients they can use again and again.

huffpost.com
Aug 17, 2026

We have been mass poisoning generations of American kids which has led to the U.S. housing the least healthy children in the world.

iowacapitaldispatch.com
Aug 17, 2026

This administration is about personal choice and about informed choice in every area of healthcare, but right now our schools and a lot of our public institutions are doing things that actively, I think, discourage children from getting…

iowacapitaldispatch.com
Aug 12, 2026

gender-affirming procedures “carry serious risks and can cause irreversible harm.”

arkansasadvocate.com
Aug 12, 2026

We encourage people to get the measles vaccine.

cbsnews.com
Aug 11, 2026

The proposal would give the agency greater visibility into the substances that are entering our food supply.

reason.com

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