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" Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety. "
Kevin de Leon
Police
Public
Safety
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" 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
" 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
" If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles. "
Kevin de Leon
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Intelligent
" No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities. "
Kevin de Leon
Wants
Our
Criminals
" 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 am not delusional. Listen, I am not naive to the fact that people are not shouting my name all over the state of California. "
Kevin de Leon
Listen
California
I Am
" I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike. "
Kevin de Leon
Strike
Bush
Help
" Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job. "
Kevin de Leon
End
People
End Of The Day
" I wouldn't have voted to prosecute 13-year-olds as adults. "
Kevin de Leon
Voted
" 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
" 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
" I grew up in the streets of San Diego, and I love this city dearly. I love this city. San Diego is my home. Even though I represent Los Angeles, this is my home. "
Kevin de Leon
Home
City
Los Angeles
" We can't cross our fingers and hope that President Donald Trump can 'learn and change.' "
Kevin de Leon
Cross
Change
Hope
" 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
" 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
" Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going. "
Kevin de Leon
Momentum
Here
Going
" We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing. "
Kevin de Leon
Building
Transportation
Jungle
" Clean energy isn't just good for the planet; it's good for consumers' monthly utility bills and for the economy. "
Kevin de Leon
Clean
Planet
Economy
" 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
Us
" 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
" Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies. "
Kevin de Leon
Now
Economic
Equity
" Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins. "
Kevin de Leon
Choose
Stand Up
Stand
" You've got to lead from a position of strength. "
Kevin de Leon
Strength
You
Position
" I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico. "
Kevin de Leon
Welfare
System
Country
" 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
" 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
" 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
" The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over. "
Kevin de Leon
Days
Tongue
Over
" 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
" 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