Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.
— Mazie Hirono
Claims of anti-conservative bias in the tech industry are baseless.
There are certain things that should remain forever pristine in your memory, and that's how I look at Hanauma.
We don't need another nuclear arms race to proceed a pace and then to encourage other countries to become very, to develop these kinds of capabilities also. This is not what we need.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies on a regular basis.
I always saw my mother just making decisions that helped our family. It was much later when I realized how courageous she really was, and I came to understand what a risk-taker she was. That's very much a part of how I am.
Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.
Don't talk to me about civility when you're separating families at the border.
Opinion is not slander.
The thing about immigrants is the people who come to this country with that kind of drive? They are risk-takers. And we need risk-takers who want to improve their lives, create jobs and do those things that add to the dynamism of our economy.
Women are problem solvers, and often we don't get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who's loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That's not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.
I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.
There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.
I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University of Hawaii.
I hope that my uniquely American journey can help pave the way for others, especially women, to step into their own immense power.
In Hawaii, we understand that our way of life depends on a healthy ocean.
The Senate needs a lot more diversity, and I bring quadruple diversity.
Good people do bad things.
It is amazing how our natural areas can change over our lifetimes.
That makes a difference when you have all these Asian faces running then getting elected. You have some 30 people, many of them Democrats, running for Congress. When the community sees the other faces who look like them can run and win, I think it encourages them.
Until I got to the nomination of Judge Gorsuch and so much preparation time, I really wasn't familiar with the blue-slip process. But it's time-honored.
To me, Stephen Miller is like Iago whispering in the president's ear, along with John Kelly. These people are totally anti-immigrant.
I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That's one of the reasons I was a psychology major.
There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.
I did not want the #MeToo movement to be swept under the rug.
The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.
I've been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side.
The millions of people in our country with severe health-care needs needed to know that many of us in the House and Senate have those kinds of concerns, too.
Sometimes, I just, I say various things.
When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.
I was almost 8 when my mother bravely brought her children to this country so we could have a chance at a better life.
My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to care for us as a single parent, is the current that has driven my entire life. Everything I've accomplished is a testament to her fortitude.
I'm grateful for the support I'm receiving from the people of Hawaii.
America must not abdicate its global leadership role in the climate crisis to countries like China.
Browbeating the tech industry for a problem that does not exist also draws attention away from the real problems with Google and other tech companies.
I lived out in the Koko Head area as a kid, when it was all farms. We would walk over that mountain into Hanauma Bay almost every day.
We need to have comprehensive immigration reform and that means there should be a path for citizenship. And certainly I support the DREAM Act to help all of these young people who were brought here.
Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.
I never took a path that was the usual path for someone in my generation. A lot of the women who I went to school with, in those days, it was still the track of becoming a teacher, becoming a nurse. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I didn't go down that path.
At a pretty young age, I wanted to do something with my life that would help people. I've been that way for quite a while.
We should not forget what it felt like to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify, and what it meant to so many of us.
Women are socialized to be very nice and put up with a lot of things.
Trump is a major motivation to be speaking out because I so disagree with some of the things that he decides on, and you notice there's a lawsuit on just about everything he does? My gosh.
Nobody is entitled to a promotion to the Supreme Court.
Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.
No one should have to worry about whether they can afford the health care that one day might save their life.
Women feel we need to be much better prepared, that we need to have a lot of experience behind us before we run for office.
Sen. Akaka's care, empathy and compassion were evident to everyone who knew him.
We cannot afford to continue losing our coral reefs, which are suffering from a number of threats such as warmer temperatures, more acidic waters, and disease, and that is why Hawaii has become a leader in taking steps to mitigate the harmful impacts of sunscreen on our marine environment.
Protecting Medicare and Social Security, health care, workers' rights, and a woman's right to choose remain top priorities for me.
