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" Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that. "
Xavier Becerra
Class
Second
Just
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" When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy. "
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Boy
Walk
Water
" It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol. "
Xavier Becerra
Time
Parents
First
" My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance. "
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Know
Parents
Today
" I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.' "
Xavier Becerra
Working Hard
Good
Think
" According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. "
Xavier Becerra
Begins
Alcohol
Age
" My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country. "
Xavier Becerra
Chance
Life
Mother
" I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely. "
Xavier Becerra
Broken
Hate
Important
" According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world. "
Xavier Becerra
Heart
World
United States
" You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time. "
Xavier Becerra
Try
You
Time
" I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times. "
Xavier Becerra
America
Business
Opportunity
" Winning the peace is harder than winning the war. "
Xavier Becerra
Harder
Winning
Than
" I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values. "
Xavier Becerra
Sacrifice
Values
Pragmatic
" But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. "
Xavier Becerra
Chapter
Nation
Work
" We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence. "
Xavier Becerra
Confidence
Economy
Need
" California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running. "
Xavier Becerra
Hit
Important
Leadership
" This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country. "
Xavier Becerra
Think
People
Experience
" According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months. "
Xavier Becerra
Alcohol
Three
Say
" Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. "
Xavier Becerra
American
White
Community
" If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants. "
Xavier Becerra
You
Saying
Country
" Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced. "
Xavier Becerra
Country
Which
Trade
" I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security. "
Xavier Becerra
Fight
Will
Security
" I'm going to fight to the death for a public option. "
Xavier Becerra
Going
Death
Public
" February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. "
Xavier Becerra
World
War
Living
" Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about. "
Xavier Becerra
Education
College
Today
" If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money. "
Xavier Becerra
Responsibility
Believe
Money
" If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act. "
Xavier Becerra
Likely
Act
More
" We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns. "
Xavier Becerra
Code
Charity
Political
" I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership. "
Xavier Becerra
Own
Been
Leadership
" The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done. "
Xavier Becerra
Done
Get
Going
" We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq. "
Xavier Becerra
Cannot
Iraq
Past