Quotes from Tony Cardenas

The FCC was founded in 1934, and their first major action was in 1941 when they broke up NBC. NBC used to be NBC Red and NBC Blue, and they broke them up for the same exact reason: that there wasn't going to be a diversity of voices and because they were vertically integrated.

No candidate can become president without the Latino vote.

Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it.

No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.

I am proud of the fact the community elected a congressman who was born and raised in the community. I am trying my best to be successful for the community.

My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

I think, with Wi-Fi, we'll make L.A. a better place for our constituents.

I think it's not up to Congress to dictate what the right amount of diversity is, but I think it's Congress' place to ask the question, to any industry, in talking about what's going on out there. Is there a lack of preparation of the community to be ready to be involved in that industry?

President Obama helped move this country forward.

Everybody should be defended, and people should be willing to stand with them to let them know that an attack on them is an attack on me.

Consumers deserve the opportunity to watch their program of choice.

The American people are happy to help small businesses grow, but paying fines for multi-millionaires, subsidizing bad behavior, should not be the responsibility of American taxpayers.

When you have 20 nominations - 20 names on the nomination list of best actor, supporting actor and actress, etc., and there's absolutely no representation of color whatsoever, I think that's a subset of perhaps a bigger problem.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

Every community needs to get its fair share of services.

Satisfying a profit motive must never be the reason for law enforcement, and it certainly must never be allowed to support the seizure of personal property by those who we trust to protect and defend our nation and our Constitution.

Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.

For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one company controlling their window to the world of culture and entertainment.

When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing.

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

When you see the horrible conditions that these animals live in, you wonder why operators of puppy mills have gone undetected for so long.

My parents didn't speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the law.

I have recently taken on two major challenges: running the CHC BOLD PAC and serving Los Angeles as our voice on the Energy and Commerce Committee.