Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I think I'll have mercy on everybody here and let us adjourn.

What we did is we got rid of the conflicts of interest. ... We depoliticized and put great scientists on it from a very diverse group.

I say I’m not anti-vaccine.

that particular vaccine perfectly matched the virus as it was at the time

No, I told her that she had to resign ‘cuz I asked her, ‘Are you a trustworthy person?’ And she said ‘no.’

Saying I’m anti-vaccine is like saying I’m anti-medicine. I’m pro-medicine.

I think that President Trump should get the Nobel Prize.

These changes were absolutely necessary adjustments to restore the agency to its role as the world’s gold-standard public health agency, with the central mission of protecting Americans from infectious disease.

If you had an employee who told you they weren’t trustworthy, would you ask them to resign, senator?

We are the sickest country in the world. That’s why we have to fire people at CDC.

We were told again and again the vaccines would prevent transmission, they prevent infection. It wasn't true. They knew it from the start.

Officer Rose was a veteran, a husband and a father of two children. Officer Rose’s widow, who I visited, is expecting their third child.

I don’t know if it saved a million lives.

You’re making things up to scare people, and it’s a lie.

They did not do their job. This was their job to keep us healthy.

I told her that she had to resign because I asked her, ‘Are you a trustworthy person?’ And she said, ‘No.’

She didn’t say, ‘No, I’m not a trustworthy person.’ She said, ‘No.’

Are you a trustworthy person? and she said no.

I'm not taking them away from people.

I don’t know how many died.

I didn’t politicize ACIP — I depoliticized it.

I told her I didn't want her to have a rule that she's not going to sign onto it.

You’re evading the question.

Absolutely, senator. It’s phenomenal.

Again, I would like to see the data and talk about the data.