Political Quotes

Rob Bonta

The Public Record

Attorney General of California since 2021

Quotes by year · 2021–2026148 total · peak 2026 (71)
2021: 6 quotes2022: 2 quotes2023: 1 quote2025: 68 quotes2026: 71 quotes
May 21, 2025

We don't think it's an appropriate use of the Congressional Review Act, and we're prepared to defend ourselves if it's wrongfully weaponized.

cbsnews.com
May 12, 2025

President Donald Trump can't use these funds as a bargaining chip as his way of ensuring states abide by his preferred policies.

cbsnews.com
May 4, 2025

California is not hiding the fact that we have chosen to focus our resources on public safety instead of immigration enforcement.

vox.com
Mar 13, 2025

We’ve secured a court order pausing the Trump Admin’s unlawful termination of federal probationary employees and ordering the reinstatement of fired employees.

truthout.org
Mar 5, 2025

I would support her if she ran, I've always supported her in everything she's done. She would be field-clearing.

newsweek.com
Mar 3, 2025

Let today’s charges be a warning for all those who abuse their power.

nbcnews.com
Feb 24, 2025

Withholding services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination.

thenation.com
Feb 14, 2025

Like a bull in a china shop, Mr. Musk is wielding an enormous amount of illegitimized power over sensitive systems and important government programs that are vital to the American way of life.

cbsnews.com
Feb 14, 2025

DOGE's ransacking of federal agencies has sown tremendous chaos, instilled distrust among the American people, and has caused deep harm to our country.

cbsnews.com
Feb 13, 2025

Like a bull in a china shop, Mr. Musk is wielding an enormous amount of illegitimized power over sensitive systems and important government programs that are vital to the American way of life.

cbsnews.com
Feb 13, 2025

DOGE's ransacking of federal agencies has sown tremendous chaos, instilled distrust among the American people, and has caused deep harm to our country.

cbsnews.com
Feb 12, 2025

President Trump may believe that he is above the law, but this injunction sends a clear message: he cannot rewrite the Constitution with the stroke of a pen.

newsweek.com
Feb 9, 2025

California hospitals and clinics remain legally required to provide this care under California’s anti-discrimination laws.

truthout.org
Feb 9, 2025

State hospitals and clinics remain legally required to provide this care under California’s anti-discrimination laws.

truthout.org
Oct 19, 2023

I urge residents to consider deleting their genetic data from 23andMe’s website.

nbcnews.com
Jun 24, 2022

The right to an abortion is alive and well in California. It is untouched by the Dobbs decision today.

msnbc.com
Jun 24, 2022

We have $125 million in the proposed budget that will be expanding access to reproductive health care, expanding access to abortion, supporting women in California and from out of state.

msnbc.com
Mar 30, 2021

But I want to and will seek collaboration, coalition-building, solution-oriented approaches as much as possible to move our states where we need to be.

msnbc.com
Mar 30, 2021

I would say to the AAPI community: I see you, I value you, I am you.

msnbc.com
Mar 30, 2021

The summer of George Floyd, the racial justice reckoning really continued to motivate California to do what we`ve already been doing, which is to pursue criminal justice reform, infuse our system, which is broken in so many places, with…

msnbc.com
Mar 30, 2021

I want to work with them. I want to work in concert to make our criminal justice system more fair, more just, and more safe.

msnbc.com
Mar 30, 2021

And I will stand by your side and fight with you to make sure that justice is done, that victims are given the support and healing that they need, that perpetrators are held accountable and that we improve our systems to prevent hate…

msnbc.com
Mar 30, 2021

Police accountability is an important part of it, not the only part of it but an important part of it and AB1506 will help create the perception and the reality of police accountability.

msnbc.com

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