Xavier Becerra Quotes

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

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.

I’m going to fight to the death for a public option.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.’

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s good to know people think I’m a nice guy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.