Quotes from Mazie Hirono

We don't need another nuclear arms race to proceed a pace and then to encourage other countries to become very, to develop these kinds of capabilities also. This is not what we need.

The Senate needs a lot more diversity, and I bring quadruple diversity.

That makes a difference when you have all these Asian faces running then getting elected. You have some 30 people, many of them Democrats, running for Congress. When the community sees the other faces who look like them can run and win, I think it encourages them.

Claims of anti-conservative bias in the tech industry are baseless.

Browbeating the tech industry for a problem that does not exist also draws attention away from the real problems with Google and other tech companies.

Clearly, there is a growing market for affordable, abundant and sustainable energy. Industry is working to meet the needs of this market, and in the process is creating jobs, technologies and industries in states across the country.

I've been a fighter all my life. I just don't look like that.

My friend Patsy Mink was a champion for social and economic justice, equality and civil rights for women and marginalized communities. She was a trailblazer who never backed down from a challenge and whose work in Hawaii and Congress brought positive change to the lives of women, children, and minorities in Hawaii and across the country.

When we in Congress set the terms under which immigrants in this country must live, we wield a power that is checked primarily by our individual sense of fairness: the power to set taxes and make laws that apply to people who do not have representation.

My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to care for us as a single parent, is the current that has driven my entire life. Everything I've accomplished is a testament to her fortitude.

We should not forget what it felt like to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify, and what it meant to so many of us.

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

Good people do bad things.

Women are socialized to be very nice and put up with a lot of things.

It is clear that our national security and economic growth are tied to affordable, abundant energy sources.

I'm grateful for the support I'm receiving from the people of Hawaii.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

That is the great thing about Hawaii. We're so culturally diverse and we inner-marry and appreciate each other's cultures.

Like my fellow citizens in Hawaii, I am a proud American.

I would never criticize a judge just because he or she presides in another state, including Alabama.

I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That's one of the reasons I was a psychology major.

We need to have comprehensive immigration reform and that means there should be a path for citizenship. And certainly I support the DREAM Act to help all of these young people who were brought here.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies on a regular basis.

I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.