Political Quotes

Rob Bonta

The Public Record

Quotes by year · 20212026138 total · peak 2025 (68)
2021: 6 quotes2022: 2 quotes2023: 1 quote2025: 68 quotes2026: 61 quotes
Aug 29, 2025

If and when he breaks the law or tramples over the Constitution, we’ll take him to court.

thenation.com
Aug 29, 2025

They’re trying to socialize this idea that not all court orders should be followed—and that’s very dangerous.

thenation.com
Aug 29, 2025

He will get slapped down with a court order within minutes if he tries to do that; he just can’t do it.

thenation.com
Aug 11, 2025

We have sued the president here in California 37 times in 29 weeks — more than once a week — to great success.

democracynow.org
Aug 11, 2025

When we push back and fight and show courage and go to court, we win.

democracynow.org
Aug 11, 2025

This is something that is deeply rooted in our history and our law as something that is prohibited, and Mr. Trump is blatantly engaged in this unlawful conduct.

democracynow.org
Jul 29, 2025

The President and Congress are implementing a cruel, backdoor abortion ban through this provision, putting their political agendas over people’s lives.

cnn.com
Jul 29, 2025

Let me be clear: federal funds don’t pay for abortions. This provision is purely retaliation against Planned Parenthood for its constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion care.

cnn.com
Jul 17, 2025

The president’s efforts to pull personal, private, and unrelated health data to create a mass deportation machine cannot be allowed to continue.

nbcnews.com
Jul 17, 2025

It is devastating to think that individuals may not seek essential medical care because they are afraid that if they do so, they may be targeted by this administration.

nbcnews.com
Jul 14, 2025

Taken together with his other attacks on education, President Trump seems comfortable risking the academic success of a generation to further his own misguided political agenda.

cbsnews.com
Jul 14, 2025

But as with so many of his other actions, this funding freeze is blatantly illegal, and we're confident the court will agree.

cbsnews.com
Jul 9, 2025

The Trump administration's relentless assault on transgender adolescents is nothing short of an all-out war to strip away LGBTQ+ rights.

nbcnews.com
Jul 9, 2025

This care remains legal in California.

nbcnews.com
Jul 7, 2025

The actions of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and CBP during the raids in Los Angeles are not about safety or justice—they're about meeting enforcement quotas and striking fear in communities.

commondreams.org
Jul 2, 2025

This is about flouting seven decades of federal law policy and practice that have made it clear that personal healthcare data is confidential and can only be shared in certain narrow circumstances that benefit the public’s health or the…

cnn.com
Jun 30, 2025

Criminals posing as federal agents were trying to capitalize on the fear and uncertainty of the immigration crackdown promised by President Donald Trump.

nbcnews.com
Jun 27, 2025

We believe that we will prevail and that we’ve made the case already.

cnn.com
Jun 20, 2025

President Trump is threatening to withhold critical transportation funds unless states agree to carry out his inhumane and illogical immigration agenda for him.

cbsnews.com
Jun 20, 2025

It’s immoral – and more importantly, illegal. I’m glad to see the District Court agrees, blocking the President’s latest attempt to circumvent the Constitution and coerce state and local governments into doing his bidding while we continue…

cnn.com
Jun 20, 2025

Trump had been treating these funds — funds that go toward improving our roads and keeping our planes in the air — as a bargaining chip.

nbcnews.com
Jun 12, 2025

These unlawful deployments have already proven to be a deeply inflammatory and unnecessary provocation.

cbsnews.com
Jun 11, 2025

Let me be clear: There is no invasion. There is no rebellion. The President is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends.

truthout.org
Jun 11, 2025

There is no invasion or rebellion in Los Angeles, only the kind of civil unrest that occurs from time to time that is typically the purview of local law enforcement.

nbcnews.com
Jun 11, 2025

Defendants, including President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth have sought to bring military personnel and a ‘warrior culture’ to the streets of cities and towns where Americans work, go to school and raise their families.

nbcnews.com

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