Words matter. These are the best Jimmy Gomez Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To me, ‘the establishment’ means people who are out of touch with the people they’re elected to represent.
Parliamentarian rules, the rules of the House, how you get bills referred, really the nuts and bolts that most members don’t ever want to know because it’s a lot of work. But that’s what really makes you successful.
I’m Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class – my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and cook, and my mom worked as a nursing home laundry attendant.
I want to work on environmental issues.
I believe everyone deserves access to clean air and water, and that climate change has exacerbated this challenge.
Someone like Bernie Sanders can be in office for 30 years, but he’s not the establishment.
When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what’s real.
In Koreatown, the issues that they deal with are very different than the people in unincorporated East Los Angeles, even though there are some similarities.
I know that it takes a coalition of individuals fighting against this very divisive agenda that the Trump administration and the Republicans are trying to push.
A poor person in my community doesn’t see a person driving a Tesla and say, ‘That benefits me.’
I’ve been pushing for the longest time that you get the votes easier and with more enthusiasm when people feel like you’re addressing their concerns.
If I was such a corporate Democrat, why would the California Nurses Association, one of the leading advocates for a single-payer system, endorse me?
Time will change who is in power.
As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.
People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.
If Dems don’t stick together, we’re going to lose.
Ensuring guns are out of the reach of children and holding those accountable who are irresponsible is the first step in reducing firearm accidents.
We must continue to honor America’s commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.
I will not support a federal budget that cuts funds for sanctuary cities, states, or universities.
I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.
If I was so establishment, I don’t think Our Revolution… would actually endorse me.
I will not negotiate the demise of the ACA with the Trump administration, but I would certainly be willing to work with responsible Republicans to fix some of the problems, particularly by strengthening the individual purchasers market to bring younger and healthier people into the risk pool.
I’ve seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people’s suffering.
A lot of people think I’m crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.
A lot of the fake news conversation came right after the 2016 election, but it’s something that had been discussed before Donald Trump ever ran for president.
We need to combat Trump’s agenda to make sure he can’t divide our families.
Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.
I believe young people from working families should have access to debt-free education because I know from my own experience that a high-school degree is not always enough, and a higher education can change a life.
By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.
The money doesn’t buy me, and it never will.
