Words matter. These are the best Mazie Hirono Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As I walk to my office every morning, I know I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.
Diversifying our energy sources will create jobs, improve our national security and lay the foundation for a strong, sustainable economy in the future.
That makes a difference when you have all these Asian faces running then getting elected. You have some 30 people, many of them Democrats, running for Congress. When the community sees the other faces who look like them can run and win, I think it encourages them.
The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.
I had run other people’s campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself. That is so much the experience of women of my generation. We always feel as though we have to bring so much more to the table, and that never stops the guys.
Hawaii – the Aloha state – is built on the strength of its multicultural society, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the many immigrants that followed.
I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That’s one of the reasons I was a psychology major.
Like my fellow citizens in Hawaii, I am a proud American.
I did not want the #MeToo movement to be swept under the rug.
I’ve been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody’s fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we’re actually on their side.
There is no future without all of us – black, brown and white – coming together.
It’s worth remembering that immigrants come to this country to work, they don’t come to get handouts.
There are certain things that should remain forever pristine in your memory, and that’s how I look at Hanauma.
Nobody is entitled to a promotion to the Supreme Court.
Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.
I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University of Hawaii.
Women are problem solvers, and often we don’t get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who’s loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That’s not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.
When I arrived at the Capitol in 2007 to take my oath as a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I had the privilege of filling the seat held for so long and so well by my friend Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress. I was so grateful to her.
I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.
If I had to wait around for somebody to pick me for lieutenant governor, I never would have been picked.
Browbeating the tech industry for a problem that does not exist also draws attention away from the real problems with Google and other tech companies.
Sometimes, I just, I say various things.
Our country is made up of groups of immigrants who came here hoping for a better life. They created America. It’s a sad thing to have so many people not remember that, including Trump.
When I’m at home, I eat kimchi every single day.
The Senate needs a lot more diversity, and I bring quadruple diversity.
I was born at home in rural Japan.
We work really hard to get elected.
I’ve been a fighter all my life. I just don’t look like that.
We need to have comprehensive immigration reform and that means there should be a path for citizenship. And certainly I support the DREAM Act to help all of these young people who were brought here.
I know our country can remain forward-thinking by ensuring young women and minorities are given equal opportunity.
Trump is a major motivation to be speaking out because I so disagree with some of the things that he decides on, and you notice there’s a lawsuit on just about everything he does? My gosh.
Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.
Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.
We should not forget what it felt like to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify, and what it meant to so many of us.
It is clear that our national security and economic growth are tied to affordable, abundant energy sources.
Good people do bad things.
Don’t talk to me about civility when you’re separating families at the border.
That used to be one of my greatest fears growing up: my mom would get sick and then she wouldn’t be able to go to work and then there is no food or money for rent.
I would never criticize a judge just because he or she presides in another state, including Alabama.
Our military’s presence in Hawaii not only plays a critical role in our national security but also in driving our state’s economy and supporting thousands of jobs in the public and private sectors.
I hope that my uniquely American journey can help pave the way for others, especially women, to step into their own immense power.
My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to care for us as a single parent, is the current that has driven my entire life. Everything I’ve accomplished is a testament to her fortitude.
No one should have to worry about whether they can afford the health care that one day might save their life.
Clearly, there is a growing market for affordable, abundant and sustainable energy. Industry is working to meet the needs of this market, and in the process is creating jobs, technologies and industries in states across the country.
I was in sixth grade at Koko Head Elementary School in Honolulu, and was chosen to pin the 50th star on the American flag in front of my teachers and classmates at a special assembly to celebrate statehood.
To me, Stephen Miller is like Iago whispering in the president’s ear, along with John Kelly. These people are totally anti-immigrant.
We don’t need another nuclear arms race to proceed a pace and then to encourage other countries to become very, to develop these kinds of capabilities also. This is not what we need.
It is amazing how our natural areas can change over our lifetimes.
Until I got to the nomination of Judge Gorsuch and so much preparation time, I really wasn’t familiar with the blue-slip process. But it’s time-honored.
Women are socialized to be very nice and put up with a lot of things.
Both political parties should be able to support the idea that taxpayers who are lawfully present, working, and paying taxes should be able to use the programs their tax dollars pay for – it is only fair.
It’s clear that health care is a concern for people all across the country regardless of their political stripe or where they live.
Women feel we need to be much better prepared, that we need to have a lot of experience behind us before we run for office.
When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren’t that many women running for office.
My husband is half Korean.
The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.
The passing of my friend and a great American hero, Dan Inouye, is a major loss for the country and Hawaii. But the people of Hawaii are strong and we will persevere.
We all know that the earlier cancer is detected the more successful treatment will be, and my cancer had spread to my ribs and that was a very fast-growing cancer.
Running for office is not easy. It’s not enough to want it.
I am fighting kidney cancer. And I’m just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that was going to probably save my life.