"What an embarrassment. Honestly, … that’s about as small as it gets. How weak."
"he is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago, and he’s incapable of even a train of thought"
"most important office is office of citizen."
"democracy is under assault right before our eyes."
"He’s a tough guy, why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me. But you know what? Lay your hands off four year old girls that are trying to get educated. Lay your hands off these poor people who..."
"We are here today because the raids have caused fear and panic."
"We're not going to solve anything by chasing people at car washes, by intimidating families in their schools or by sending troops into an American city."
"There are entire sectors of our economy that will not function if the immigrant community is too afraid to go to work and too afraid to go to school."
"Because the fact of the matter is, she has a half dozen violent criminals on rotation."
"Let’s do it peacefully, because that is our right."
"But we can’t cower, that’s what Donald Trump [wants] — he wants us to stay quiet and just stay home."
"I understand their plight, I understand their struggle, I understand their sacrifice to just find the American dream: a good opportunity, maybe a good job, the ability to raise a family, and have the ..."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles commu..."
"First Amendment rights are a beautiful thing, and they need to be utilized."
"If they’re willing to do this to me, a United States senator representing the state of California, just imagine how it’s going with their immigration enforcement on the streets."
"If we don’t show up, Democracy dies."
"It’s all BS coming from Trump."
"We push back against these authoritarian tendencies of a president that has pushed the boundaries, push the limit, but no longer can push this state around."
