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" 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

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Tony Cardenas

Doing The Right Thing

Community

Doing

" I do like the nonpartisan atmosphere here at City Hall where you can talk with the person who opposes you and either get their support or not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tony Cardenas

Animals

Hands

" As someone who has owned a small business in the past, I understand how difficult it can be to get a loan. "

" If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election. "

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" When millions of law-abiding people achieve citizenship, our communities benefit, and the U.S. economy grows and strengthens. "

" 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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" Nearly one-fifth of our fellow citizens are Latino. They are families who are impacted by our education system, by our economy, by our healthcare delivery, and by every policy we make here in Washington. "

" 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

" For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one company controlling their window to the world of culture and entertainment. "

" 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? "

" Every community needs to get its fair share of services. "

" My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "