Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Sunday Political Talk Show interviews during 2020-2024

On Civil Rights: Against biological males participating in women's sports

On Government Reform: Criticizes anti-cryptocurrency policies under Biden

"Cryptocurrencies, led by Bitcoin, along with other crypto technologies are a major innovation engine. It is a mistake for the U.S. government to hobble the industry and drive innovation elsewhere. Biden's proposed 30% tax on cryptocurrency mining is a bad idea."

On Health Care: Un-American to end religious exemptions for vaccinations

On Immigration: I will enforce a secure border & expand LEGAL immigration

On Environment: 60% of kids today suffer environment-based health problems

KENNEDY: No, we just made a general commitment that we were going to work together [on issues such as] this epidemic of chronic disease that is now disabled about 60% of our kids. When my uncle [John F. Kennedy was] President, only 6% of Americans had chronic disease.

It's hard to find a kid today that's not been damaged by it, and it's coming from our food supply, from pollution & toxics in our environment, and mainly from corruption in our government that allows that to happen.

The most profitable thing today in America is a sick child. Everybody is making money. The hospitals are making money. The pharmaceutical companies are making money. And we need to end those perverse incentives. We need to get the corruption out of FDA, out of NIH, out of the CDC and make them function as they're supposed to function, which is to protect public health and particularly children's health.

On Health Care: Separate focus of NIH away from pharma industry

KENNEDY: No, I wouldn't dismantle them. I would change the focus and I would end the corruption. Right now, 75% of FDA's budget is coming from pharmaceutical companies. That is a perverse incentive.

Scientists and officials in NIH who work on drug development, who incubate drugs for the pharmaceutical company, get to collect lifetime royalties from those products. These are regulators. They're supposed to be looking for problems in those products. We have these agencies that have become sock puppets for the industries they're supposed to regulate. They're not really interested in public health.

On Principles & Values: Endorses Trump, to form a "unity government"

KENNEDY: It became clear to me that I did not have a path to victory. President Trump had been reaching out to me and the broad issues that were most important to me--ending the Ukraine war, ending the censorship, and protecting children's health--those are all things that President Trump also wanted to work on, and he invited me to form a unity government. We agreed that we'd be able to continue to criticize each other on issues on which we don't agree. But these issues are so important and their way of unifying our country. We need in this country to reach a point where we love our children more than we hate each other.

On Government Reform: Unity government: criticize on some issue; but work together

KENNEDY: President Trump had been reaching out to me. The broad issues that were most important to me--the ones that brought me into the campaign--ending the Ukraine war, ending the censorship and protecting children's health--those are all things that President Trump also wanted to work on, and he invited me to form a unity government. We agreed that we'd be able to continue to criticize each other on issues on which we don't agree. We need in this country to reach a point where we love our children more than we hate each other.

Q: Have you all negotiated over or talked about a cabinet position?

KENNEDY: No, there's no commitments. We just made a general commitment that we were going to work together.

Q: There were reports a couple weeks that there had been outreach to the Harris camp as well?

KENNEDY: I reached out to them on the same basis that I reached out to President Trump.

On Health Care: Chronic disease affects 60% of Americans; was 6% under JFK

KENNEDY: This epidemic of chronic disease that is now disabled about 60% of our kids. And you know, when my uncle [John F. Kennedy] was President, only 6% of Americans had chronic disease. Today, over 60%. And, you know, it's hard to find a kid today that's not been damaged by it, and it's coming from our food supply, from pollution, toxics in our environment, and mainly from corruption in our government that allows that to happen.

Q: You've talked about or there's been discussion that if you were to join the Trump administration in some health related position, that you have real interest in dismantling things like the FDA, the CDC, NIH. You would like to see focus away from infectious diseases to what you're talking about more chronic diseases. Is it fair to say that you would try to dismantle some of those organizations?

KENNEDY: No, I wouldn't dismantle them. I would change the focus and I would end the corruption.

On Health Care: End corrupt incentives on pharmaceuticals in NIH and FDA

A: I would change the focus and I would end the corruption. Right now, 75% of FDA's budget is coming from pharmaceutical companies. That is a perverse incentive. Officials in NIH who work on drug development, who incubate drugs for the pharmaceutical company, get to collect lifetime royalties from those products. These are regulators. They're supposed to be looking for problems in those products. We have these agencies that have become sock puppets for the industries they're supposed to regulate. They're not really interested in public health.

The most profitable thing today in America is a sick child. Everybody is making money. The hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies, even the insurance companies make money. And we need to end those perverse incentives. We need to get the corruption out of FDA, out of NIH, out of the CDC and make them function as they're supposed to function, which is to protect public health and particularly children's health.

On Principles & Values: Driven out of race by network censorship

KENNEDY: It became clear to me that I did not have a path to victory. Sixteen months of censorship, of not being able to get on any network really except for FOX. When Ross Perot ran, in the 10 months that he ran, he had 34 appearances on the networks. I had two appearances in months. I was blocked out the networks. I was blocked out from the debate. I had no path to victory. President Trump had been reaching out to me and I talked to him a few hours after the assassination attempt and we had a long conversation by phone.

On Principles & Values: Suspends campaign and endorses Donald Trump

Kennedy cited free speech, the war in Ukraine and "a war on our children" as among the reasons he would try to remove his name from the ballot in battleground states.

"These are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump," Kennedy said. Kennedy said his actions followed conversations with Trump over the past few weeks. He cast their alliance as "a unity party," an arrangement that would "allow us to disagree publicly and privately and seriously." Kennedy suggested Trump offered him a job if he returns to the White House, but neither he nor Trump offered details.