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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. "
Kevin de Leon
America
Up
Living
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" I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life. "
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My Life
Mother
" My whole life, I've been told to 'wait my turn' and 'know my place.' "
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Life
Know
Place
" I am not just a defender of the California Dream. I am a product of it. "
Kevin de Leon
Dream
Just
Product
" Clean air shouldn't be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled. "
Kevin de Leon
Air
Clean
Live
" We can't cross our fingers and hope that President Donald Trump can 'learn and change.' "
Kevin de Leon
Cross
Change
Hope
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
Being
Worry
Government
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
Pollution
Price
California
" You've got to lead from a position of strength. "
Kevin de Leon
Strength
You
Position
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
World
Enough
Addiction
" Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins. "
Kevin de Leon
Choose
Stand Up
Stand
" California serves as our nation's cutting edge on many fronts. "
Kevin de Leon
Our
California
Nation
" I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico. "
Kevin de Leon
Welfare
System
Country
" There's always more employers can do to protect their employees. "
Kevin de Leon
More
Always
Employees
" The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over. "
Kevin de Leon
Days
Tongue
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. "
Kevin de Leon
Good
Paper
Sound
" Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world. "
Kevin de Leon
California
World
Energy
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
Effort
American
Lift
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
California
Business
Believe
" My name is Kevin de Leon, and I am the president of the most progressive legislative house in America. "
Kevin de Leon
Name
I Am
House
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
Stop
Transparency
Work
" I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike. "
Kevin de Leon
Strike
Bush
Help
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
Young
Honor
Cancer
" California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change. "
Kevin de Leon
California
Energy
World
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
Opportunity
Succeed
Day
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
Change
Wait
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. "
Kevin de Leon
California
Stubborn
Successful
" Many foreign students take their California degrees back to their home countries. They become entrepreneurs that develop products that they sell back to us. "
Kevin de Leon
California
Students
Become
" We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition. "
Kevin de Leon
Move
Strong
You
" Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it. "
Kevin de Leon
You
Anything
Means
" 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. "
Kevin de Leon
Quality
You
Family