Politician

We carved it in stone: no matter the place of your birth or the hue of your skin, you can live in California in safety, dignity, and, yes, sanctuary.

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.

I don't believe other states should be in the business of luring production out of California. We've made it clear that no one is going to out-compete California.

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.

I know - firsthand - that California works best when everyone has the opportunity to succeed. It's a lesson that's hard to learn from the back of a limousine, or behind gated walls. And it's a lesson that guided me every day as the president of the California State Senate - the most productive and progressive policymaking body in America.

Many foreign students take their California degrees back to their home countries. They become entrepreneurs that develop products that they sell back to us.

You've got to lead from a position of strength.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety.

I would never call our country the welfare system for Mexico.

Foreign relations should involve human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection.

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.

I am not just a defender of the California Dream. I am a product of it.

California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine.

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.

I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.

Clean air shouldn't be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled.

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.

My mother, Carmen, cleaned houses and took care of elderly people.