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" My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance. "

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" The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done. "

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" I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security. "

" I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do. "

" I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times. "

" I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values. "

" You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time. "

" African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. "

" As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans. "

" It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol. "

" I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader. "

" Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that. "

" We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence. "

" I'm going to fight to the death for a public option. "

" Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting. "

" California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running. "

" Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs. "

" According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world. "

" I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.' "

" We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns. "

" Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. "

" Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. "

" My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country. "

" I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership. "

" When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy. "

" If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act. "

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" If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants. "

" Winning the peace is harder than winning the war. "

" The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry. "

" Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about. "

" We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair. "