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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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Jul 10, 2019

He passes a tax bill that benefits the top 1 percent and the biggest corporations of this country while he made this promise to help working people that he has betrayed them.

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Jul 10, 2019

The guy has now got to start distracting people from the fact that he made all these promises that I believe he had no intention of fulfilling.

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Jul 10, 2019

We have a lot of work to be done. I’m in this campaign to win it, I fully intend to win, but it will not be without a lot of hard work and smart work.

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Jul 10, 2019

Strength -- the display of strength in my book is you lift people up. You don’t beat them down.

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Jul 10, 2019

I don’t want a victim of crime to be afraid to wave down that patrol car when she has been hurt for fear that if she stops that police officer, she is going to be deported.

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Jul 10, 2019

It’s highly irresponsible because it’s yet another example of this president trying to interfere and if not weaken our democracy.

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Jul 10, 2019

It’s a revival of an old playbook that was debunked a long time ago.

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Jul 10, 2019

Let’s have a system where we have everyone having access as a right and not a privilege for just those who can afford it.

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Jul 10, 2019

If you won the presidency and the ACA was gone, 20 million people been thrown off health insurance because the ACA was overruled by this Trump administration lawsuit, would that change your approach to what you want to do with health care?

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Jul 10, 2019

Children being able to be on their parents’ coverage until age 27. That has to come back immediately.

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Jul 10, 2019

When he makes these grand proclamation through his big tweets, what he is doing I believe intentionally is trying to create fear in these individuals and these families. And that is not the sign of a strong president. Strength -- the…

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Jul 10, 2019

And so, let’s do it in a way that is actually more effective and cheaper, where people don’t have access to health care because they are in crisis and we are paying so much more because they are getting in at the latest stage of their…

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Jul 10, 2019

This president and this administration are in the business of intimidating and instilling fear in people, particularly those he perceives to be vulnerable.

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Jul 10, 2019

This is a guy who takes the word of the Russian president over the word of the American intelligence community when it comes to the fact that Russia interfered in the election.

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Jul 10, 2019

I saw children lined up by gender, single file like they’re criminals being led into barracks.

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Jul 10, 2019

He has failed to perform on every level by which we should measure a president of the United States.

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Oct 23, 2013

Michael was a 11 miles away with five eye witnesses at the time that the murder was committed. He has an airtight alibi.

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Oct 22, 2013

The police -- well the police officer investigated this was a police who was really responsible -- it was a group of people who were responsible for orchestrating the conviction of Michael Skakel.

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Oct 22, 2013

Anybody who looks at the evidence to this case, you know, Michael was 11 miles away with five eyewitnesses at the time that the murder was committed. He has an airtight alibi, but unfortunately, he had a -- he was very poorly represented…

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Oct 22, 2013

He wasn't doing too well, but he was -- you know, he was in jail for 12 years for a crime that he didn't commit, and the jail that he was in was not like a country club jail. It was a very, very tough place, and he was -- he had a tough…

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Oct 22, 2013

Well, I think everybody who knows Michael is overjoyed with it. We actually, my family, prays every night for Michael Skakel and has done so for 12 years that he gets justice, and so this is a -- this is really a -- it's a -- it's a…

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Aug 26, 2009

I think Teddy ultimately had a wonderful life. And he was -- he was just a naturally buoyant, happy person. And, you know, he -- he felt a pain. He was engaged in his life.

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Aug 26, 2009

I think Teddy ultimately had a wonderful life and he was just a naturally buoyant happy person. And he felt a pain; he was engaged in his life.

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May 22, 2008

It sounds like she was invoking a familiar historical circumstance in support of her argument for continuing her campaign.

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