Quotes from Xavier Becerra

If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.

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.

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

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

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

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

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.

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

Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

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.

We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.

When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

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 don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.

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

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.

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.

I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'