Words matter. These are the best Beto O’Rourke Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I remember ordering records out of the Dischord catalog in the ’80s, and there would be a handwritten note.
Let’s not put anybody down. Instead, let’s lift each other up. Let’s bring out the absolute best from our fellow Americans – every single one of them from every single community.
The goal should be universal, guaranteed, high-quality health care.
You have to tell the people that you want to serve what it is you believe and what you are going to do on their behalf.
My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, ‘I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.’
I don’t know that my colleagues in Congress really care about what happens here in El Paso and in Juarez. They care what happens in their home district.
I think corporations should be asked to pay a greater share into the success of this country.
There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women.
With all due respect to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, neither of them understand Texas, nor do they understand the U.S.-Mexico border.
I was born in ’72, and my dad was county judge of El Paso from ’82 to ’86. He was just as independent as he could be, and had an amazing joy in life and in being with people, which, from my perspective as a kid, was that he was always going to do the right thing, and damn the consequences – political or otherwise.
We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There’s no separation; there’s no DMZ; there’s no buffer.
Giving low-level offenders a second chance, no matter the color of their skin or the economic status they hold, can create opportunity for all of us.
The border is safe; it’s secure. El Paso is the safest city in America. Let’s own that. Let’s be proud of that. And then, I think, good policy can follow from that, better outcomes included.
Courage makes victory possible.
I’m the original co-sponsor of an assault weapons ban.
In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it’s based in fact.
I don’t know how old I was when I first started going to shows, maybe 14 or 15, but very quickly, I discovered Dischord Records in D.C. and loved all the music on that catalog. I was a big Rites of Spring fan, Minor Threat, of course.
One overlooked great 1980s rock n’ roll band, maybe punk rock – they were on SST Records, same label as Black Flag – is this band called the Leaving Trains.
I’m for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we’ll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn’t fall.
We must work towards solutions that make housing, transportation, the workforce, and higher education more equitable.
The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That’s part of the problem, and I’m a white man.
I’m pretty – I’m pretty animated.
The world wants to know – is the future a democratic one or an autocratic one? And I want to make sure that the United States leads on that, clearly that it’s democratic.
There was something punk rock about Bobby Kennedy not going where the pollsters said or where consultants said. He was unmoored from what was safe or easy.
We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: ‘What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?’
