Quotes from Mazie Hirono

Protecting Medicare and Social Security, health care, workers' rights, and a woman's right to choose remain top priorities for me.

The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.

Women are problem solvers, and often we don't get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who's loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That's not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.

Hawaii - the Aloha state - is built on the strength of its multicultural society, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the many immigrants that followed.

The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.

There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

I hope that my uniquely American journey can help pave the way for others, especially women, to step into their own immense power.

Trump is a major motivation to be speaking out because I so disagree with some of the things that he decides on, and you notice there's a lawsuit on just about everything he does? My gosh.

Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.

I had run other people's campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself. That is so much the experience of women of my generation. We always feel as though we have to bring so much more to the table, and that never stops the guys.

I will work hard to ensure Hawaii's strategic position in our national security remains strong.

In Hawaii, we understand that our way of life depends on a healthy ocean.

It's clear that health care is a concern for people all across the country regardless of their political stripe or where they live.

America must not abdicate its global leadership role in the climate crisis to countries like China.

I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University of Hawaii.

We work really hard to get elected.

It is amazing how our natural areas can change over our lifetimes.