Mark Takano: “I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”

“Progress is not permanent. Rights do not protect themselves. Democracy does not defend itself.”

We fight for an America where nobody feels that they have to carry a passport to prove they belong.

America belongs to all of us. Let’s Go For Broke. Go all in for democracy. Go all in for equality. Go all in for freedom.

America does not belong to one political party. America does not belong to a bloodline. And it certainly doesn’t belong to one man.