Quotes from Jimmy Gomez

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.

In Koreatown, the issues that they deal with are very different than the people in unincorporated East Los Angeles, even though there are some similarities.

In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women - going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It's how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives.

We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

I like musicals.

My district really wanted me... to take a hard stance against a Donald Trump agenda.

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

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?

If Dems don't stick together, we're going to lose.

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

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 want to work on environmental issues.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.