Elijah Cummings: “We have to get stuff done. And I can't--we cannot keep our commitment to Ms. Terry by doing this back-and-forth thing.”

Asian Americans are becoming more politically visible, and our numbers are showing that.

We are better than where we are. We are better than this.

If we had a House and if we had a Senate that would pass legislation and we had a President that would sign it, this problem which is the subject of this hearing today could be fixed.

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.