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" 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. "
Tony Cardenas
Decision
Goals
Understand
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" 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. "
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Time
" We need to get around a table, have a serious discussion about the holistic problems in our immigration system, and craft a common-sense solution. "
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" Every time I got paid, I would give my parents money. I would save some money, and I would have a little money to spend. "
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Money
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" I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check myself and say, 'I've already had dessert today.' "
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" President Obama helped move this country forward. "
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Country
Forward
" 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. "
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Street
New
" When millions of law-abiding people achieve citizenship, our communities benefit, and the U.S. economy grows and strengthens. "
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" If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election. "
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Home
Stay
" To truly utilize the full potential of every person in our nation, our laws and representation must track the needs, concerns, and goals of the Latino community. "
Tony Cardenas
Potential
Goals
Community
" I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee. "
Tony Cardenas
Serving
Challenges
Energy
" When you see the horrible conditions that these animals live in, you wonder why operators of puppy mills have gone undetected for so long. "
Tony Cardenas
Puppy
Long
Live
" California's redistricting process creates a historic opportunity for Valley Latinos to have a strong and unified voice in Congress for the first time. The opportunity to be the Valley's first Latino Congressional representative is humbling, and I'm proud that so many diverse leaders have come together to support this campaign. "
Tony Cardenas
Together
Time
Opportunity
" 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. "
Tony Cardenas
Healthcare
Education
Here
" Every day, opportunities within the hemisphere go untapped, and millions of dollars are lost simply because companies do not know where to begin if they want to expand into new territories and grow their business. "
Tony Cardenas
Business
Day
Lost
" When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing. "
Tony Cardenas
Doing The Right Thing
Community
Doing
" My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup. "
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Country
Education
Father
" BOLD PAC is Hispanic first, Democratic second. And it's a close, close second because we do not engage in endorsing non-Democrats. "
Tony Cardenas
Engage
Because
First
" 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
Up
" Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it. "
Tony Cardenas
Place
Yourself
You
" All parents want their kids to be on a healthy track to success. "
Tony Cardenas
Success
Parents
Want
" 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
" Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself. "
Tony Cardenas
Priests
Religious
Yourself
" Satisfying a profit motive must never be the reason for law enforcement, and it certainly must never be allowed to support the seizure of personal property by those who we trust to protect and defend our nation and our Constitution. "
Tony Cardenas
Constitution
Trust
Support
" My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do. "
Tony Cardenas
Work
Good
Been
" I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary. "
Tony Cardenas
Father
Eat
Diabetes
" Every community needs to get its fair share of services. "
Tony Cardenas
Community
Fair
Get
" The San Fernando Valley has plenty of manufacturing zones, especially in the 29th Congressional District. "
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Valley
Manufacturing
Congressional
" The NCAA is acting like they can or are willing to self-police. It doesn't appear that they are willing to do it to the degree that they should. "
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NCAA
Like
Degree
" 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. "
Tony Cardenas
Color
Best
Actor
" My parents didn't speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the law. "
Tony Cardenas
Speak
Law
Parents