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" It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals. "

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" I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life. "

" My whole life, I've been told to 'wait my turn' and 'know my place.' "

" I am not just a defender of the California Dream. I am a product of it. "

" Clean air shouldn't be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled. "

" We can't cross our fingers and hope that President Donald Trump can 'learn and change.' "

" I worry about civil-rights activists being targeted as black-identity extremists. I worry about the government saying, 'I don't like this progressive blogger' and subjecting them to scrutiny. "

" Cap and trade is an important tool in California's climate policy portfolio. It sends a price signal to industries to reduce their carbon pollution while generating billions of dollars in revenue for investments in clean transportation and direct pollution reduction. "

" You've got to lead from a position of strength. "

" There isn't enough renewable fuel in the world to crack our growing addiction to foreign oil. We need to decrease miles driven and increase engine efficiency. "

" Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins. "

" California serves as our nation's cutting edge on many fronts. "

" I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico. "

" There's always more employers can do to protect their employees. "

" The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over. "

" I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor. "

" Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world. "

" We will not lift a single finger or spend a single cent to be a cog in the Trump deportation machine, and we won't be complicit in his effort to make American great again by reengineering the legal immigration system. "

" I don't believe other states should be in the business of luring production out of California. We've made it clear that no one is going to out-compete California. "

" My name is Kevin de Leon, and I am the president of the most progressive legislative house in America. "

" Our State Senate must lead by example, restore trust and transparency, stop sweeping workplace misconduct under the rug, and do everything we can to protect women who work in and around the Capitol. "

" I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike. "

" My mother passed away young - she died from ovarian cancer at just 54 years old. Her sacrifices for my sisters and I evoke a tribute in her honor each and every Mother's Day. "

" California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change. "

" I know - firsthand - that California works best when everyone has the opportunity to succeed. It's a lesson that's hard to learn from the back of a limousine, or behind gated walls. And it's a lesson that guided me every day as the president of the California State Senate - the most productive and progressive policymaking body in America. "

" If I've learned one thing as a state leader, it's that California will never fulfill its truest potential if we wait for Washington to change on its own. "

" Unlike Washington, the California legislature has proved that cooperation is both possible and essential to successful policymaking, while stubborn absolutism will have you trailing head lice in popularity polls. "

" Many foreign students take their California degrees back to their home countries. They become entrepreneurs that develop products that they sell back to us. "

" We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition. "

" Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it. "

" I believe that every family - it doesn't make a difference who you are or where you come from - deserves to have quality healthcare. It is a universal right. It's not the exclusive privilege of the elite and the wealthy. "