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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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“Today, more than ever, it is critical for American citizens to understand the difference between the free-market capitalism that made our country great and the corporate cronyism that is now corrupting our political process, strangling democracy and devouring our national treasures.”
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Recorded in: From "Crimes against nature" in Rolling Stone magazine (December 11, 2003).
“The news departments have become corporate profit centers. And their only obligation now is to their shareholders. Which is to create large audiences and viewership so they can sell more ad space. So they're airing stories that appeal to the prurient interests that all of us have in the reptilian core of our brain: for sex and celebrity gossip. And now, for terror. So they give us Kobe Bryant and they give us Michael Jackson. And they give us Laci Peterson and they give us lots and lots of terror alerts. But they're not telling us the really critical stories that impact our way of life.”
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Recorded in: Real Time with Bill Maher (October 22, 2004).
“[According to a specialist, an abnormality seen in his brain scans] was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
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“[After the mercury poisoning (cited above)] I have cognitive problems, clearly [...] I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”
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Recorded in: From a deposition (2012), as cited in "R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain", The New York Times (May 8, 2024)
“They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone [...] This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country.”
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Recorded in: Speaking in Sacramento (April 7, 2015), cited in "Robert Kennedy Jr. Compares Vaccine Debate To Holocaust As California Lawmakers Look At Banning Exemptions" CBS News Bay Area (April 8, 2015)
“Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based (sic) vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children.”
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Recorded in: Why Does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Get Brain Science So Wrong?" by Emily Willingham, forbes.com (July 21, 2015).
“My father believed moral courage to be the rarest species of bravery. Rarer even than the physical courage of soldiers in battle or great intelligence. He thought it the one vital quality required to salvage the world.”
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Recorded in: From his foreword to Plague of Corruption by Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits, blurb cited by AP News (April 30, 2020)
“The digitalized economy? We get rid of cash and coins. We give you a chip. We put all your money in your chip. If you refuse a vaccine, we turn off the chip and you starve!”
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Recorded in: Debunked Bill Gates Conspiracy Gets A Boost From RFK Jr., Marla Maples" Forbes (August 15, 2020)
“Even in Hitler's Germany you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.”
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Recorded in: At an anti-vaxxer rally (January 23, 2022), cited in "Robert Kennedy Jr apologizes for Holocaust remarks at anti-vaxxer rally" Reuters (January 25, 2022). On January 25., he said: "I apologize for my reference to Anne F…
“I can’t answer that.”
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Recorded in: Answered to the question "What do you see as more harmful to America: another term of Joe Biden, or Donald Trump returning to power?“ in the spring of 2023, quoted in "Why RFK Jr. Endorsed Trump", The Atlantic (August 2…
“There's a cushy .”
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Recorded in: From his interview on (April 19, 2023)
“[On climate science] I can’t independently verify that.”
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“[The climate crisis is being used to create] totalitarian controls on society [...] by the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates, and all of these megabillionaires.”
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“In my campaign I’m not going to be talking a lot about climate. Why is that? Because climate has become a crisis like Covid that the Davos groups and other totalitarian elements in our society have used as a pretext for clamping down totalitarian controls.”
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Recorded in: From an interview on Breaking Points (late May 2023), as cited by Naomi Klein in "Ignoring Robert F Kennedy Jr is not an option", The Guardian (June 14, 2023)
“On mass shootings prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these events in our country and we've never seen them in human history, where people walk into a schoolroom of children or strangers and start shooting people.”
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Recorded in: Online Twitter conversation with Elon Musk (June 5, 2023), as cited in "Robert Kennedy Jr., With Musk, Pushes Right-Wing Ideas and Misinformation", The New York Times (June 5, 2023)
“[On the Assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963] I can guarantee you, looking at this case, that I could prove that my uncle's death was caused by the C.I.A. I have enough evidence right now, without any depositions, to go to prove that my uncle's death was the result of a conspiracy. And that the C.I.A. was involved—not only in the original conspiracy but in the sixty-year coverup—and continues to maintain the coverup.”
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Recorded in: Extracts from interview by David Remnick in "The Alternative Facts of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr." The New Yorker (July 7, 2023).
“There is an argument that [COVID-19] is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately [...] COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
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Recorded in: Comments in a video recorded at a New York City fundraiser a few days earlier, "Presidential Candidate RFK Jr. Says Jews Intentionally Spared From 'Ethnically Targeted' COVID-19" Haaretz (15 July 2023)
“[Donald Trump is] probably the most successful debater in this country since Lincoln-Douglas.”
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“[Trump] has his own technique that people like, and it is like going to a prize fight and you need practice. And that usually happens during a primary, and asking [Biden] not to debate during the primary is like asking a prize fighter to practice for his big bout by sitting on the couch and eating Chick-fil-A”
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Recorded in: The Lincoln–Douglas debates in 1858 were between the future president Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen Douglas for a senate seat representing Illinois.
“I don't know what happened on 9/11. I mean, I understand what the official explanation [for 9/11] is, I understand that there is dissent. I have not looked into it. I haven't examined it. I'm not a good person to talk to about it.”
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“Well, I know … there’s strange things that happened, that don't seem … One of the buildings [in New York] came down that wasn't hit by a plane, so, you know, was it building seven or building 10?”
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“[Bergen said the twin towers collapsed on top (of WTC7)] No, they didn't collapse on top of it. My offices were down there [at the bottom of Manhattan]. My offices were closed and you know … there's pictures of it collapsing. There's nothing collapsing on top of it. I mean, listen, I don't want to argue any theories about this because all I've heard is questions. I have no explanation. I have no knowledge of it. But ... what you’re repeating now, I know not to be true.”
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“It's not something that I, you know, any part of [it] I endorse one way or the other, but I do think that it ought to be permissible in this country to question official narratives.”
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Recorded in: In the Room podcast hosted by Peter Bergen, as cited in "Robert F Kennedy Jr expresses skepticism at official 9/11 account", The Guardian (26 September 2023)
“I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States.”
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Recorded in: From a speech in Philadelphia, as cited in "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president, ending Democratic primary challenge to Biden", CNN (9 October 2023)
“My position on abortion was that it should always be a woman's choice right up to the very end. In the ninth month, you're basically killing a child, right?”
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Recorded in: RFK Jr. explains change on full-term abortion stance: 'Basically killing a child'", FOX News (May 15, 2024)
“The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.”
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Recorded in: RFK Address to the Nation" (August 23, 2024)
“I do interviews everyday. Everyone who asks gets to interview me. Sometimes I do 10 a day. President Trump also does many interviews. How could the Democrat Party choose a candidate who refuses to do an interview?”
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Recorded in: RFK Address to the Nation" (August 23, 2024)
“I was at the bottom of my class, I started doing heroin, I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still and read.”
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Recorded in: Said during a June 2024 episode of Shawn Ryan Show podcast, quoted in "Fact Check: RFK Jr. Says Heroin Helped Him Reach Top of His Class" Newsweek (November 26, 2024)
“Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”
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Recorded in: ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: Measles outbreak is call to action for all of us", Fox News (March 2, 2025)
“The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine.”
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Recorded in: RFK Jr. consoles Texas family: MMR vaccine ‘most effective’ way to stop measles spread, The Hill (April 6, 2025)
“[On the issue of autism] 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 a toilet unassisted. And we have to recognize we are doing this to our children, and we need to put an end to it.”
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Recorded in: RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong. Washington Post (April 18, 2025)
“Wi-Fi radiation does all kinds of adverse things, including causing cancer.”
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“Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier, so all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain.”
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Recorded in: RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it." MS News / Yahoo News (July 25, 2025)
“Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy.”
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Recorded in: RFK Jr. Learns He Is Not Also Denmark’s HHS Secretary" Splinter (August 12, 2025)
“And I said, ‘I’m not scared of a germ.’ You know, I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.”
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Recorded in: Trump cabinet member hopes Kid Rock joins him in sobriety: ‘I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats’" All Alabama (February 12, 2026)
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be. My kids waited patiently in the car.”
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Recorded in: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Laughs Off Question About Cutting Off a Dead Raccoon’s Penis" Yahoo News (April 16, 2026)
“Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented, to live in a community where there’ll be no cellphones, no screens, you’ll actually have to talk to people.”
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“I don’t know what reparenting even is.”
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“I never suggested that.”
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Recorded in: RFK Jr., Terri Sewell clash over Black youth remarks" Alabama Political Reporter (April 17, 2026)
“President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There's two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction.”
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“If the drug was $100 and it raised the price to $600 that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings. And the President used that mathematical device to illustrate the magnitude of the theft that has been happening against our country and our people.”
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Recorded in: Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease" PBS (April 24, 2026)
“Generations of Americans will pay the Republican campaign debt to the energy industry with global instability, depleted national coffers and increased vulnerability to price shocks in the oil market. They will also pay with reduced prosperity and quality of life at home. Pollution from power plants and traffic smog will continue to skyrocket. Carbon-dioxide emissions will aggravate global warming. Acid rain from Midwestern coal plants has already sterilized half the lakes in the Adirondacks and destroyed the forest cover in the high peaks of the Appalachian range up into Canada. The administration's attacks on science and the law have put something even greater at risk. Americans need to recognize that we are facing not just a threat to our environment but to our values, and to our democracy.”
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Recorded in: From "Crimes against nature" in Rolling Stone magazine (December 11, 2003).
“I had my own mercury levels tested recently, Bill, and my levels are about three times what are considered safe, just from eating fish. I was told by Dr. David Carpenter, who is the national authority on mercury contamination, that a woman with my levels of mercury would have children with cognitive impairment, with permanent brain damage, probably an IQ loss of 5 to 7 points... Under Clinton rules, they would have had to remove 90% of that mercury within three-and-a-half years. But this president, eight weeks ago, announced he was scrapping those rules and substituting rules that were written by industry lobbyists that will require that they never have to clean up. This is an issue that affects hundreds of thousands of people and directly impacts the health of millions and millions of Americans. But you don't see it in the newspaper. It should be the headlines every single day. But we don't know about it.”
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Recorded in: To Bill Maher on Real Time with Bill Maher (October 22, 2004).
“Dr. Mikovits joined NIH in 1980 as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Molecular Virology at the National Cancer Institute and began a 20-year collaboration with Frank Ruscetti, a pioneer in the field of human retro virology. She helped Dr Russetti isolate the HIV virus and link it to #AIDS in 1983. Her NIH boss Anthony Fauci delayed publication of that critical paper for 6 months to let his protégé Robert Gallo replicate, publish and claim credit. The delay in mass HIV testing let AIDS further spread around the globe and helped Fauci win promotion to director NIAID... Appropriating her (Judy Mikovits') work wasn’t the worst of it. This delayed the development of testing and spread the HIV epidemic through the world, killing millions. Driven by greed and cronyism, Anthony Fauci—”America’s Doctor”—is directly responsible for the further spread of HIV throughout the world. Rather than being punished for his actions, six months later he was appointed Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases–a position he still holds today.”
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Recorded in: The Truth About Fauci—Featuring Dr. Judy Mikovits,Children's Health Defense (April 20, 2020)
“In 2006, Dr Mikovits became director of Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease and collaborated with Dr Ruscetti searching for the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which suddenly became epidemic in the 1980s.... Dr. Mikovits discovered that 67% of affected women carried a virus—called Xenotropic Murine Leukemia related Virus—that appeared in healthy women only 4% of the time. XMRV is also associated with prostate, breast, ovarian cancers, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. Many women with XMRV bore children with autism. In 2009, Drs. Mikovits and Ruscetti published their explosive findings in the journal Science. But the question remained: how was XMRV getting into people? Other researchers linked the first CFS outbreak to a polio vaccine given to doctors and nurses that resulted in the “1934 Los Angeles County Hospital Epidemic.” That vaccine was cultivated on pulverized mouse brains. Retroviruses from dead animals can survive in cell lines and permanently contaminate vaccines. Dr Mikovits’ studies suggested that the XMRV Virus was present in the MMR, Polio and Encephalitis vaccines given to American children and soldiers. XMRV is so hazardous that the mere presence of mouse tissue in a laboratory can contaminate other tissues in the same room. Dr Fauci ordered Mikovits to keep her mouth shut. When she refused, he illegally confiscated her work books and hard drives, drove her from government work and blackballed her from receiving NIH grants ending her science career. XMRV remains in American vaccines.”
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Recorded in: In The Truth About Fauci—Featuring Dr. Judy Mikovits,Children's Health Defense (April 20, 2020)
“The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power. China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon's short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.”
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Recorded in: From his post on Facebook (April 4, 2023)
“The Russians have repeatedly offered to settle. If you look at the Minsk accords, which the Russians offered to settle for, they look like a really good deal today. Let's be honest: it’s a US war against Russia, to essentially sacrifice the flower of Ukrainian youth in an abattoir of death and destruction for the geopolitical ambition of the neocons, oft-stated, of regime change for Vladimir Putin and exhausting the Russian military so that they can't fight anywhere else in the world. President Biden has said that was his intention — to get rid of Vladimir Putin. His Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, in April 2022, said that our purpose here is to exhaust the Russian army. What does that mean, "exhaust"? It means throwing Ukrainians at them. My son fought over there, side-by-side with the Ukrainians and we've sacrificed 300,000 of them. The commander of the special forces unit in the Ukraine, which is probably the most elite fighting force in Europe, has said 80% of his troops are dead or are wounded and they cannot rebuild the unit. Right now, the Russians are killing Ukrainians at a ratio of either 1:5 or 1:8, depending on what data you believe.”
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Recorded in: On the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on Unherd (May 3, 2023)
“What happened in the Ukraine is that the US supported essentially a coup d’etat in 2014, against the democratically-elected government of Ukraine. We have telephone call transcripts of Victoria Nuland, one of the neocons in the White House, handpicking the new cabinet that was hostile to the Soviet Union. If you look at that, and you put yourself in Russia’s position, and you say: "Okay, the United States, our biggest enemy, is treating us as an enemy, has now taken over the government of a nation and made them hostile to us, and then started passing laws that are prejudicial to this giant Russian population." If Mexico did that and then started killing — they killed 14,000 Russians in Donbas, the Ukrainian government — if Mexico did that to expatriate Americans, we'd invade in a second. We have to put ourselves in the shoes of our opponents.”
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Recorded in: Talking about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on Unherd (May 3, 2023)
“[On the suggestion "You know what, Alex Jones, with all due respect, I don't want your support" is "a principled insistence" Jones represents a "a bridge too far"] If you're just saying you're going to dismiss certain people because this human being is so irredeemable that I am going to exclude him or her from any future activity on the planet—I just don’t think that's consistent with my spiritual beliefs. It's not consistent with my political philosophy. I believe that we should invite our enemies into the tent with us to the extent that they want to break bread with us, that they may want to endorse some of the values that we hold dear.”
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