"This is not just another legislative game here. This is life and death stuff, and climate change is related to the fires in California."
"If you don't face the reality and do something about it, you are complicit."
"This is a crisis that Washington has to wake up to."
"Our children are the living messages that we send to a future that we'll never see. The question is, will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No, we will not do that."
"Chairman Cummings, who when I was a Brookings Fellow here on Capitol Hill, was a mentor to many of us."
"The true measure of leadership is whether we leave the world better for our children and our grandchildren and those yet unborn than we found it."
"On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk abo..."
"And I don't give a damn how you look at it; there are efforts to stop people from voting. That is not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America."
"Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens."
"It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed."
"Asian Americans are becoming more politically visible, and our numbers are showing that."
"That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member."