Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Mazie Hirono - Page 2

Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.

Opinion is not slander.

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

I always saw my mother just making decisions that helped our family. It was much later when I realized how courageous she really was, and I came to understand what a risk-taker she was. That's very much a part of how I am.

We don't need another nuclear arms race to proceed a pace and then to encourage other countries to become very, to develop these kinds of capabilities also. This is not what we need.

The thing about immigrants is the people who come to this country with that kind of drive? They are risk-takers. And we need risk-takers who want to improve their lives, create jobs and do those things that add to the dynamism of our economy.

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.

I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.

Until I got to the nomination of Judge Gorsuch and so much preparation time, I really wasn't familiar with the blue-slip process. But it's time-honored.

That makes a difference when you have all these Asian faces running then getting elected. You have some 30 people, many of them Democrats, running for Congress. When the community sees the other faces who look like them can run and win, I think it encourages them.

Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.

Claims of anti-conservative bias in the tech industry are baseless.

I did not want the #MeToo movement to be swept under the rug.

Browbeating the tech industry for a problem that does not exist also draws attention away from the real problems with Google and other tech companies.

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.

There are certain things that should remain forever pristine in your memory, and that's how I look at Hanauma.

Don't talk to me about civility when you're separating families at the border.

We should not forget what it felt like to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify, and what it meant to so many of us.

I've been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side.

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.

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

Sometimes, I just, I say various things.

No one should have to worry about whether they can afford the health care that one day might save their life.

I never took a path that was the usual path for someone in my generation. A lot of the women who I went to school with, in those days, it was still the track of becoming a teacher, becoming a nurse. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I didn't go down that path.

Nobody is entitled to a promotion to the Supreme Court.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies on a regular basis.

I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That's one of the reasons I was a psychology major.

I lived out in the Koko Head area as a kid, when it was all farms. We would walk over that mountain into Hanauma Bay almost every day.

At a pretty young age, I wanted to do something with my life that would help people. I've been that way for quite a while.

We need to have comprehensive immigration reform and that means there should be a path for citizenship. And certainly I support the DREAM Act to help all of these young people who were brought here.

Good people do bad things.

I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'

Instead of working to undo POTUS exec action, we need to workcollaboratively to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.

The House GOP continues to fail to address the real & serious issues thatthousands of families face each day.

Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While I'm glad to see our seniors receive an increase for the second year in a row, I wish the cost-of-living adjustment could be larger. However, every little bit helps make a difference in these tough economic times.