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“Someone like Bernie Sanders can be in office for 30 years, but he's not the establishment.”
“Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.”
“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.”
“My district really wanted me... to take a hard stance against a Donald Trump agenda.”
“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?”
“We need to combat Trump's agenda to make sure he can't divide our families.”
“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.”
“Time will change who is in power.”
“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 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'm trying to work on my Spanish.”
“I always knew it'd be difficult to balance the right of privacy and the right of free speech. I think that is a tension that we've seen in court case after court case and law after law. And we always strive to find that right balance.”
“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 have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.”
“To me, 'the establishment' means people who are out of touch with the people they're elected to represent.”
“A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'”
“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.”
“I want to work on environmental issues.”
“I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.”