Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin de Leon
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
I worry about civil-rights activists being targeted as black-identity extremists. I worry about the government saying, 'I don't like this progressive blogger' and subjecting them to scrutiny.
California lost its way in 1994 with Prop. 187, but that tragic episode gave birth to a new California consciousness - one that will now do everything within its power to protect our diversity and the economic power it has created.
My mother passed away young - she died from ovarian cancer at just 54 years old. Her sacrifices for my sisters and I evoke a tribute in her honor each and every Mother's Day.
Addressing budget issues is usually a balancing act in which cuts are weighed against revenue increases to find the best solution for the state.
Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety.
When you have a president who mocks our inclusivity, who demonizes our diversity... you can't ask for patience.
I wouldn't have voted for the war in Iraq, which has cost us trillions we could have been spending on a carbon-free economy, affordable college, and single-payer health care.
Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.
I'm not into political gamesmanship.
My mother, Carmen, cleaned houses and took care of elderly people.
Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.
Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies.
If I've learned one thing as a state leader, it's that California will never fulfill its truest potential if we wait for Washington to change on its own.
The voice of Vin Scully has become the song of summer for generations of Los Angeles baseball fans and aficionados of excellence in sports broadcasting.
Our State Senate must lead by example, restore trust and transparency, stop sweeping workplace misconduct under the rug, and do everything we can to protect women who work in and around the Capitol.
Banning plastic bags so that people use paper bags or imported reusable bags that will end up in local landfills soon thereafter is not the only solution to our plastic bag challenge.
Cap and trade is an important tool in California's climate policy portfolio. It sends a price signal to industries to reduce their carbon pollution while generating billions of dollars in revenue for investments in clean transportation and direct pollution reduction.
I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life.
California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine.
If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles.
I wouldn't have voted to prosecute 13-year-olds as adults.
California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines.
We will not lift a single finger or spend a single cent to be a cog in the Trump deportation machine, and we won't be complicit in his effort to make American great again by reengineering the legal immigration system.
Clean energy isn't just good for the planet; it's good for consumers' monthly utility bills and for the economy.
I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.
There isn't enough renewable fuel in the world to crack our growing addiction to foreign oil. We need to decrease miles driven and increase engine efficiency.
I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.
Domestic workers allow many people with disabilities to maintain independent, productive lives and live in their own homes - not in institutions.
No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities.
We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.
Our communities will become more - not less - dangerous when local police officers are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids, busboys, and day laborers for immigration violations.
Unlike Washington, the California legislature has proved that cooperation is both possible and essential to successful policymaking, while stubborn absolutism will have you trailing head lice in popularity polls.
Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world.
California serves as our nation's cutting edge on many fronts.
Yes, we absolutely need to eliminate the single-use plastic bag, but we don't have to eliminate the jobs of hardworking Californians to accomplish this goal.
The infrastructure at Union Station is antiquated. High-speed is going to come in eventually. We need to upgrade that system. Every day the Metro comes in, the Amtrak comes in, and they idle their engines for hours, spewing poisonous toxins - all that crap - into the air.
As the youngest child of a single immigrant mother with a third-grade education, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I'd ever be an elected official.
We can't cross our fingers and hope that President Donald Trump can 'learn and change.'
We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition.
California is the greatest beacon of opportunity the world has ever known. But we didn't get here through years of political seniority - we built it through acts of audacity.
California's university system is one of the premier higher education systems in the world, and we should require that non-resident students pay a premium to attend it. The revenue generated from these fees can be used to increase affordability and access for more Californians.
The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over.
Many foreign students take their California degrees back to their home countries. They become entrepreneurs that develop products that they sell back to us.
Democrats are very good at governing. When it comes to messaging, I'm not too sure about.
Clean air shouldn't be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled.
Recycling more plastics can help local businesses and expand jobs while supporting the goals of sustainability.
No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we'll need to bring together the best from each corner, taking what works from government, the private sector, and our local communities and crafting common-sense solutions to gun violence.
California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change.
You've got to lead from a position of strength.
When people see the healthful impact this is having and all the hard hats constructing, their minds may change about high-speed rail.
It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals.
I am not just a defender of the California Dream. I am a product of it.
There's always more employers can do to protect their employees.
Dependence on oil from volatile foreign markets undermines our economic security and threatens our national security. Moreover, that addiction is producing toxic air and a public-health epidemic.
It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins.
Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it.
President Trump's threat to weaponize federal funding is not only unconstitutional but emblematic of the cruelty he seeks to impose on our most vulnerable communities.
The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.
Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.
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