Foreign relations should involve human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection.
While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.
I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor.
The D.C. Playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.
My whole life, I've been told to 'wait my turn' and 'know my place.'
I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.
I would never vote to allow federal agents to spy on American citizens without warrants.
I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico.
My name is Kevin de Leon, and I am the president of the most progressive legislative house in America.
As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.
I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.
I am not delusional. Listen, I am not naive to the fact that people are not shouting my name all over the state of California.
Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.
We speak truth to power, and we've never been fooled into believing Donald Trump 'can be a good president.'
California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines.
We can't cross our fingers and hope that President Donald Trump can 'learn and change.'
Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world.
California continues to pass the most ambitious laws in the world to expand clean energy and combat climate change.
I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life.
My mother, Carmen, cleaned houses and took care of elderly people.
I'm not into political gamesmanship.
Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it.
I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.
We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition.
You've got to lead from a position of strength.
It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins.
If we do high-speed rail, the governor has to be intelligent and invest the dollars at the 'bookends' - San Francisco and Los Angeles.
When people see the healthful impact this is having and all the hard hats constructing, their minds may change about high-speed rail.
California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine.
We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.
