Xavier Becerra

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.

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.

This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.

Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.

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

I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'

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

I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.

I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

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

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

Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

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

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.

My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

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.

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.

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.

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

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.