Words matter. These are the best Xavier Becerra Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think I’ve been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I’m always working hard to get an ‘A.’
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
Shame on me if I don’t try to do more with what I have. It would be… a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
I have a lot of kids in my district who haven’t been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that’s 20 miles away.
Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can’t swallow that.
I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You’re asking the people to let you be their voice. I don’t think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
It’s good to know people think I’m a nice guy.
I’ve learned to be pragmatic, but I don’t sacrifice my principles, my values.
Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.
You don’t win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
If you’re saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country’s functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.
As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian’s efforts to reach all Americans.
Could today’s construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That’s what we’re fighting about.
When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I’m willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I’ll even be water boy.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
I’m never gonna change the skin, right? I’m very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me… but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.
California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
