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" 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
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" 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
" The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it. "
Kevin de Leon
Information
Process
Internet
" I don't believe the federal government should be snooping into American citizens' cell phones without a warrant issued by a federal judge. You cannot give the federal government extraordinary powers to eavesdrop without a warrant. It's simply un-American. "
Kevin de Leon
American
Judge
Government
" When I was elected for the first time in '06 I'd never been elected to any body. City councils, school board, community college boards, trustee, water district trustee, class president, ASB president, senior class president - nothing. I was never elected to anything in my life. "
Kevin de Leon
Water
Time
Life
" No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we'll need to bring together the best from each corner, taking what works from government, the private sector, and our local communities and crafting common-sense solutions to gun violence. "
Kevin de Leon
Best
Together
Society
" Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going. "
Kevin de Leon
Momentum
Here
Going
" I want you to know that California is your sanctuary. We will always be a place where you can be whoever you are and become whoever you dream of being. California will always stand up for you. That's a principle that's bigger than partisanship, more powerful than any president. "
Kevin de Leon
Stand Up
Powerful
Place
" 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
" 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
" 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
" What we have done dramatically in California is lead the entire nation. For example, we have created more jobs in clean energy in California than there are coal-mining jobs in all of America. "
Kevin de Leon
America
Energy
California
" As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president. "
Kevin de Leon
Democrats
Good
Enough
" Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins. "
Kevin de Leon
Choose
Stand Up
Stand
" Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations. "
Kevin de Leon
Immigration
Dangerous
Day
" I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike. "
Kevin de Leon
Strike
Bush
Help
" No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities. "
Kevin de Leon
Wants
Our
Criminals
" Yes, we absolutely need to eliminate the single-use plastic bag, but we don't have to eliminate the jobs of hardworking Californians to accomplish this goal. "
Kevin de Leon
Goal
Jobs
Need
" California serves as our nation's cutting edge on many fronts. "
Kevin de Leon
Our
California
Nation
" 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
" I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico. "
Kevin de Leon
Welfare
System
Country
" In California, we celebrate our diversity. We celebrate who we are because we're proud of who we are; we're proud of where our families come from. "
Kevin de Leon
Celebrate
California
Diversity
" 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
" California lost its way in 1994 with Prop. 187, but that tragic episode gave birth to a new California consciousness - one that will now do everything within its power to protect our diversity and the economic power it has created. "
Kevin de Leon
Diversity
California
Lost
" I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough. "
Kevin de Leon
Good
Think
Enough
" It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins. "
Kevin de Leon
Repeat
Remember
Past
" 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
" Banning plastic bags so that people use paper bags or imported reusable bags that will end up in local landfills soon thereafter is not the only solution to our plastic bag challenge. "
Kevin de Leon
Challenge
End
Solution
" Democrats are very good at governing. When it comes to messaging, I'm not too sure about. "
Kevin de Leon
Sure
Too
Democrats
" President Trump's threat to weaponize federal funding is not only unconstitutional but emblematic of the cruelty he seeks to impose on our most vulnerable communities. "
Kevin de Leon
Most
Only
President
" California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine. "
Kevin de Leon
California
Cog
Machine