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" 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

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" I didn't know how to do a press release, so I'd call the local Assembly member and say, 'Hey, can you fax me one of your press releases?' 'Which one?' 'Any one.' "

Kevin de Leon

Know

Local

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

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

" California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines. "

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

" While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't have voted to prosecute 13-year-olds as adults. "

Kevin de Leon

Voted

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

" It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins. "

" I'm not into political gamesmanship. "

Kevin de Leon

Political

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

" I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy. "

Kevin de Leon

Deal

Only

" 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. "

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

" California's university system is one of the premier higher education systems in the world, and we should require that non-resident students pay a premium to attend it. The revenue generated from these fees can be used to increase affordability and access for more Californians. "

Kevin de Leon

Higher Education

World

" California is the greatest beacon of opportunity the world has ever known. But we didn't get here through years of political seniority - we built it through acts of audacity. "

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

" From education to the environment, from high wages to health care to human rights, California is proof that progressive policies put into action improve the human condition of all individuals. "

" We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing. "

" California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine. "

" I am not delusional. Listen, I am not naive to the fact that people are not shouting my name all over the state of California. "

" I wouldn't have voted for the war in Iraq, which has cost us trillions we could have been spending on a carbon-free economy, affordable college, and single-payer health care. "

Kevin de Leon

Care

War

" Recycling more plastics can help local businesses and expand jobs while supporting the goals of sustainability. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We speak truth to power, and we've never been fooled into believing Donald Trump 'can be a good president.' "