Becerra Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

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#8. I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

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#9. We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.

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#10. Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

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#11. 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.

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#12. I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.

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#13. Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

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#14. It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I ... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

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#18. The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

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#21. I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

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#22. My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

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#23. NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.

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#24. If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.

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#25. We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

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#26. African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

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#27. I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.

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#28. The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

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#29. Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

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#30. It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.

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#31. Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

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#32. 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.'

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#33. According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

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#34. 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.

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#35. Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot of concern about getting embroiled in another Vietnam and ... about sending American troops once again to fight someone else's war.

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#36. Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

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#37. But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

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#38. If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

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#39. 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.

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#40. You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.

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#41. 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.

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#42. The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

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#43. 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.

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#44. The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.

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#45. Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

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#46. According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

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