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" 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. "

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" Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars. "

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" The infrastructure at Union Station is antiquated. High-speed is going to come in eventually. We need to upgrade that system. Every day the Metro comes in, the Amtrak comes in, and they idle their engines for hours, spewing poisonous toxins - all that crap - into the air. "

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

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" The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around. "

" When you have a president who mocks our inclusivity, who demonizes our diversity... you can't ask for patience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change. "

" I'm not into political gamesmanship. "

Kevin de Leon

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" Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it. "

" The voice of Vin Scully has become the song of summer for generations of Los Angeles baseball fans and aficionados of excellence in sports broadcasting. "

" Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies. "

" As the youngest child of a single immigrant mother with a third-grade education, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I'd ever be an elected official. "

" I worry about civil-rights activists being targeted as black-identity extremists. I worry about the government saying, 'I don't like this progressive blogger' and subjecting them to scrutiny. "

" My whole life, I've been told to 'wait my turn' and 'know my place.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president. "

" The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over. "

" Dependence on oil from volatile foreign markets undermines our economic security and threatens our national security. Moreover, that addiction is producing toxic air and a public-health epidemic. "

" If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles. "

" Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world. "

" 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. "

" I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor. "

" Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety. "

" 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. "