Xavier Becerra Quotes

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.

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

I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.

Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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