Kevin de Leon

“Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies.”

“California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change.”

“I worry about civil-rights activists being targeted as black-identity extremists. I worry about the government saying, 'I don't like this progressive blogger' and subjecting them to scrutiny.”

“I'm not into political gamesmanship.”

“I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.”

“The infrastructure at Union Station is antiquated. High-speed is going to come in eventually. We need to upgrade that system. Every day the Metro comes in, the Amtrak comes in, and they idle their engines for hours, spewing poisonous toxins - all that crap - into the air.”

“California serves as our nation's cutting edge on many fronts.”

“It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins.”

“Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world.”

“Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.”

“Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.”

“Dependence on oil from volatile foreign markets undermines our economic security and threatens our national security. Moreover, that addiction is producing toxic air and a public-health epidemic.”

“I wouldn't have voted to prosecute 13-year-olds as adults.”

“As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.”

“Banning plastic bags so that people use paper bags or imported reusable bags that will end up in local landfills soon thereafter is not the only solution to our plastic bag challenge.”

“If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles.”

“Yes, we absolutely need to eliminate the single-use plastic bag, but we don't have to eliminate the jobs of hardworking Californians to accomplish this goal.”

“Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.”

“Our State Senate must lead by example, restore trust and transparency, stop sweeping workplace misconduct under the rug, and do everything we can to protect women who work in and around the Capitol.”

“I would never vote to allow federal agents to spy on American citizens without warrants.”