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" Every time I got paid, I would give my parents money. I would save some money, and I would have a little money to spend. "
Tony Cardenas
Save
Money
Parents
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" Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it. "
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You
" I think it's not up to Congress to dictate what the right amount of diversity is, but I think it's Congress' place to ask the question, to any industry, in talking about what's going on out there. Is there a lack of preparation of the community to be ready to be involved in that industry? "
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" I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check myself and say, 'I've already had dessert today.' "
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Today
Myself
" When you have 20 nominations - 20 names on the nomination list of best actor, supporting actor and actress, etc., and there's absolutely no representation of color whatsoever, I think that's a subset of perhaps a bigger problem. "
Tony Cardenas
Color
Best
Actor
" We must make the masses understand that we have a responsibility to care for our animals and that when things get messed up, it's usually because human hands have caused it. "
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Animals
Up
Hands
" If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment. "
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Community
Negative
Then
" Consumers deserve the opportunity to watch their program of choice. "
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Choice
Deserve
Watch
" Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they've set. "
Tony Cardenas
Decision
Goals
Understand
" Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself. "
Tony Cardenas
Priests
Religious
Yourself
" When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing. "
Tony Cardenas
Doing The Right Thing
Community
Doing
" It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public. "
Tony Cardenas
Media
Participation
Difficult
" The American people are happy to help small businesses grow, but paying fines for multi-millionaires, subsidizing bad behavior, should not be the responsibility of American taxpayers. "
Tony Cardenas
Happy
Small
Responsibility
" The FCC was founded in 1934, and their first major action was in 1941 when they broke up NBC. NBC used to be NBC Red and NBC Blue, and they broke them up for the same exact reason: that there wasn't going to be a diversity of voices and because they were vertically integrated. "
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Red
Blue
Action
" I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary. "
Tony Cardenas
Father
Eat
Diabetes
" I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee. "
Tony Cardenas
Serving
Challenges
Energy
" Every community needs to get its fair share of services. "
Tony Cardenas
Community
Fair
Get
" Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me. "
Tony Cardenas
Know
Me
Stand
" It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity. "
Tony Cardenas
Going
Individual
Up
" There is no organic process where you can take a diverse community like America and then distill it down to it only looks monolithic without having some kind of inorganic interplay going on that created that outcome. "
Tony Cardenas
Process
Down
Community
" Every day, opportunities within the hemisphere go untapped, and millions of dollars are lost simply because companies do not know where to begin if they want to expand into new territories and grow their business. "
Tony Cardenas
Business
Day
Lost
" Being fined for violating the rules of your league is not the same as a shop owner on Main Street paying to have a new sign hung in front of their business. One is a business expense, the other is a punishment. "
Tony Cardenas
Rules
Street
New
" I meditate, and I try to do that twice a day. "
Tony Cardenas
Twice
Try
Day
" I am proud of the fact the community elected a congressman who was born and raised in the community. I am trying my best to be successful for the community. "
Tony Cardenas
Best
Successful
Proud
" We need to get around a table, have a serious discussion about the holistic problems in our immigration system, and craft a common-sense solution. "
Tony Cardenas
Need
Immigration
Serious
" The NCAA is acting like they can or are willing to self-police. It doesn't appear that they are willing to do it to the degree that they should. "
Tony Cardenas
NCAA
Like
Degree
" When we fail to include diverse, talented faces, reflecting both today and tomorrow's America, we send a poor message to our youth and the world. "
Tony Cardenas
Today
Tomorrow
World
" BOLD PAC is Hispanic first, Democratic second. And it's a close, close second because we do not engage in endorsing non-Democrats. "
Tony Cardenas
Engage
Because
First
" Who cannot appreciate the smell of bacon? It smells good, but I never want to grab a bite. "
Tony Cardenas
Appreciate
Good
Never
" California's redistricting process creates a historic opportunity for Valley Latinos to have a strong and unified voice in Congress for the first time. The opportunity to be the Valley's first Latino Congressional representative is humbling, and I'm proud that so many diverse leaders have come together to support this campaign. "
Tony Cardenas
Together
Time
Opportunity
" Bad policy tends to be done in a rush. "
Tony Cardenas
Bad
Policy
Rush