Quotes from Xavier Becerra

The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.

My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.

If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.

I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

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.

I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.

According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.

I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.