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“I am proud of the fact the community elected a congressman who was born and raised in the community. I am trying my best to be successful for the community.”
“Satisfying a profit motive must never be the reason for law enforcement, and it certainly must never be allowed to support the seizure of personal property by those who we trust to protect and defend our nation and our Constitution.”
“Every day, opportunities within the hemisphere go untapped, and millions of dollars are lost simply because companies do not know where to begin if they want to expand into new territories and grow their business.”
“Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me.”
“I meditate, and I try to do that twice a day.”
“No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.”
“Being fined for violating the rules of your league is not the same as a shop owner on Main Street paying to have a new sign hung in front of their business. One is a business expense, the other is a punishment.”
“If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.”
“Consumers deserve the opportunity to watch their program of choice.”
“When you have 20 nominations - 20 names on the nomination list of best actor, supporting actor and actress, etc., and there's absolutely no representation of color whatsoever, I think that's a subset of perhaps a bigger problem.”
“I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee.”
“California's redistricting process creates a historic opportunity for Valley Latinos to have a strong and unified voice in Congress for the first time. The opportunity to be the Valley's first Latino Congressional representative is humbling, and I'm proud that so many diverse leaders have come together to support this campaign.”
“The American people are happy to help small businesses grow, but paying fines for multi-millionaires, subsidizing bad behavior, should not be the responsibility of American taxpayers.”
“I think it's not up to Congress to dictate what the right amount of diversity is, but I think it's Congress' place to ask the question, to any industry, in talking about what's going on out there. Is there a lack of preparation of the community to be ready to be involved in that industry?”
“Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.”
“My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.”
“It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public.”
“I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check myself and say, 'I've already had dessert today.'”
“When we fail to include diverse, talented faces, reflecting both today and tomorrow's America, we send a poor message to our youth and the world.”
“There is no organic process where you can take a diverse community like America and then distill it down to it only looks monolithic without having some kind of inorganic interplay going on that created that outcome.”