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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 22, 2024

I would continue aid. Israel's fighting a defensive war. It's not a war of choice.

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May 22, 2024

I'm confident that there is no American more qualified than Nicole Shanahan to play this role.

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May 7, 2024

I offer to five more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate.

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Apr 17, 2024

We could disagree on issues, and we could disagree with passion and information, but we still love each other.

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Apr 2, 2024

Listen, I can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy.

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Apr 1, 2024

I mean, listen, I can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy.

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Apr 1, 2024

if you worked hard, if you played by the rules, you could buy a house, you could finance it, you could take a summer vacation, you could raise a family, you could put something aside for retirement on one job.

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Apr 1, 2024

If you have a government that can silence its opponent, it has license for any atrocity.

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Apr 1, 2024

I can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy.

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Mar 31, 2024

In 2001, we had an election stolen in this country during the Bush Gore election. In 2004, I wrote an award-winning article for 'Rolling Stone' that showed how that election was stolen from John Kerry.

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Mar 31, 2024

I would describe myself as a populist, but like my father was a populist, an populist for idealism, for America's greatest -- our signature values, for democracy, for free speech, for a Constitution.

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Mar 31, 2024

What we ought to have is, we ought to have machines, and we ought to have paper ballots at the same time.

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Mar 31, 2024

If you vote for President Trump or President Biden, they both had their chance. You're going to get more of the same. If somebody needs -- if somebody actually wants change, wants to actually alter those issues, they're going to vote for…

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Mar 31, 2024

Let's have an election system that even 10 percent of the Americans who are crazy people, and even they won't question, because our election system is the best election system in the world.

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Mar 31, 2024

I'm way ahead of an independent candidate in history right now, and I intend to win the election. I think I can win the White House. I think we have a very good chance of winning in November.

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Mar 31, 2024

I don't think that either of them are capable of ending the corporate capture of all of our agencies.

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Mar 31, 2024

You have both sides using scare tactics, that Republicans say that, if Joe Biden gets in, it's going to be the end of the republic. Democrats say, if Donald Trump gets in, it's going to be the end of democracy.

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Mar 31, 2024

Why isn't the political establishment talking about this? We ought to be solving this problem.

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Mar 31, 2024

Who ran up that debt? It was President Trump and President Biden. Together, in just four years each, they ran up more spending than all the previous presidents going back to George Washington combined.

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Mar 31, 2024

we would take steps to eliminate synthetic food dyes in the U.S. food supply by the end of 2026

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Mar 31, 2024

I can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy.

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Mar 31, 2024

President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech.

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Mar 31, 2024

Populist movements can either be harnessed by demagogues for dark reasons, and with -- using all the alchemies of demagoguery, or they can be captured by idealistic leaders and idealistic reason.

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Mar 31, 2024

I don't think either President Trump or President Biden are going to solve the debt crisis in this country, which is existential.

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Mar 31, 2024

If you have a government that can silence its opponent, it has license for any atrocity.

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