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.

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Sep 4, 2025

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

nbcnews.com
Sep 4, 2025

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

nbcnews.com
Sep 4, 2025

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

newrepublic.com
Sep 4, 2025

I'm not taking them away from people.

cnbc.com
Sep 4, 2025

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

newrepublic.com
Sep 4, 2025

I’m not taking vaccines away from anybody.

cnn.com
Sep 3, 2025

There’s nobody who will fight harder to find a vaccine or a treatment for Lyme disease than me.

newrepublic.com
Sep 3, 2025

We need good science, and I’m going to bring that in.

newrepublic.com
Sep 2, 2025

the CDC required strong leadership to address a deeply embedded malaise

breitbart.com
Aug 29, 2025

We’re launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.

nbcnews.com
Aug 29, 2025

There’s a lot of trouble at CDC, and it’s going to require getting rid of some people over the long term in order for us to change the institutional culture.

cnn.com
Aug 29, 2025

Together, we will rebuild this institution into what it was always meant to be: a guardian of America’s health and security.

cnn.com
Aug 29, 2025

I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation.

reason.com
Aug 29, 2025

I am committed to working with you to restore trust, transparency, and credibility to the CDC.

cbsnews.com
Aug 28, 2025

Many of them have black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation, so we can’t exclude those as a culprit.

thedailybeast.com
Aug 28, 2025

We need to look at the priorities of the agency, if there’s really a deeply, deeply embedded ... malaise at the agency, and we need strong leadership that will go in there and that will be able to execute on President Trump’s broad…

cnbc.com
Aug 28, 2025

I got involved with this primarily because I came from a big family… and I never saw anybody with diabetes. I never knew anybody with a food allergy. I never knew anybody with autism when I was a kid, and I know what a healthy child is…

thedailybeast.com
Aug 28, 2025

Many of them have black-box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation.

nypost.com
Aug 28, 2025

There's a lot of trouble at CDC, and it's going to require getting rid of some people over the long term in order for us to change the institutional culture.

cbsnews.com
Aug 28, 2025

There was no time in the past when people would walk into a church or a classroom and start shooting people.

nypost.com
Aug 28, 2025

We’re launching studies on the potential contribution to some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.

thedailybeast.com
Aug 28, 2025

I want you to hear directly from me - the mission remains strong, and so does my full confidence in you.

cbsnews.com
Aug 28, 2025

I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like.

newrepublic.com
Aug 28, 2025

It’s not really happening in other countries, it’s happening here.

nypost.com
Aug 28, 2025

We are doing those kind of studies now.

nypost.com

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