Political Quotes

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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

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May 6, 2025

autism is part of a chronic disease epidemic that destroys children and families

cnn.com
May 6, 2025

I think it’s a moral imperative that we all believe in freedom of choice in this country.

cnn.com
May 6, 2025

pulling back the curtain — with full transparency and accountability — to deliver the honest answers families have waited far too long to hear.

nbcnews.com
May 5, 2025

Those programs were not terminated, as the media has reported. But they've simply been consolidated into a place that makes more sense.

cbsnews.com
May 5, 2025

I would restore the lead poisoning experts in the center, saying that some of the layoffs could have been mistakes.

cbsnews.com
May 4, 2025

20% of job cuts at the HHS may need to be reversed due to 'mistakes.'

cbsnews.com
May 3, 2025

These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use the toilet unassisted.

nbcnews.com
Apr 30, 2025

I will tell the CDC to stop recommending fluoridation for drinking water in communities.

cnn.com
Apr 29, 2025

The first line of response should be lifestyle, it should be eating well, making sure that you don’t get obese, and that those GLP drugs have a place.

nbcnews.com
Apr 29, 2025

I’m confident DeSantis will sign the bill and that he’s looking at the science now in order to change federal fluoride regulations.

cnn.com
Apr 29, 2025

Nobody wants to eat petroleum.

msnbc.com
Apr 28, 2025

There is no systemic advantage to drinking fluoridated water.

nbcnews.com
Apr 22, 2025

We have long known that no such link exists.

msnbc.com
Apr 21, 2025

[Autism] dwarfs the COVID epidemic and the impacts on our country because COVID killed old people. Autism affects children and affects them at the beginning of their lives, the beginning of their productivity.

truthout.org
Apr 21, 2025

autism a preventable disease and an epidemic

truthout.org
Apr 21, 2025

We have to recognize we are doing this to our children, and we need to put an end to it.

truthout.org
Apr 21, 2025

These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.

truthout.org
Apr 15, 2025

Individuals with autism cannot hold jobs, have romantic relationships, or play sports.

slate.com
Apr 2, 2025

We’re going to put him on a carnivore diet.

vox.com
Apr 1, 2025

Our lifespan has dropped. So Americans now live six years shorter than Europeans. We are the sickest nation in the world and we have the highest rate of chronic disease.

nbcnews.com
Mar 31, 2025

Too much money had been put into genetic research — 'a dead end,' in his words — and his project would be a correction to focus on environmental causes.

vox.com
Mar 31, 2025

Genes don’t cause epidemics. You need an environmental toxin.

vox.com
Mar 27, 2025

Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos.

slate.com
Mar 22, 2025

I want them all gone by the end of my term.

nbcnews.com

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