The marriage equality ruling establishes for the American public where the majority already are - which is that love is love and discriminating against a human being based on love is idiotic.
— Ted Lieu
Look, Bill Barr can choose to be a lying partisan hack. It just means he needs to go work for the Trump campaign but he can't be attorney general. That's a position that requires independence, integrity, an oath to the constitution.
It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.
Californians want to have clean air, clean water - not like the Trump Administration is trying to do with its rollback of environmental regulations, like the reversal of the Clean Power Plan.
In my experience, bad actors respond to threats of military action or sanctions.
Partisanship should have no role in the vital U.S.-Israel relationship.
I think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.
I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.
I've been very thankful in my state legislative career to have gotten support from both the MPAA and various movie studios.
I think I'm very knowledgeable about the issues of my constituents.
What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.
I am a supporter of Medicare for All.
Democracy is messy.
The President should not be able to enrich himself and his family at taxpayer expense, period.
Diversity - both in ideas and people - has always been one of the country's greatest assets.
Trump bragged about hiring only the 'best people' when he was running for president. We're seeing, time and again, the opposite. It's unclear whether the president's definition of 'best people' is different than ours, or if the 'best people' simply aren't interested in working for him.
The president of the United States has a serious job with deadly serious responsibilities. Rash and impulsive decisions by him can lead to negative outcomes and distractions that undermine the strength of our nation.
Democrats are certainly happy to talk about border security, but we're not going to build this stupid vanity wall of Donald Trump's with U.S. taxpayer dollars.
The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press.
Voters are smarter than Republicans think they are.
California voters are very aware that the Trump administration has been disproportionately awful for the Golden State.
Speech controversies' will come and go as they always have, but our countries' shared values remain and Congress' bipartisan support for a strong U.S.-Israel partnership is ironclad.
As you get a changing of the guard in Washington D.C., with different people from different sectors, you'll start to break through the gridlock.
We need to increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.
One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.
The entertainment industry is one of the areas where we have a competitive advantage over other nations.
If I tweet out 'Trumpcare will cause 22 million people to lose coverage,' I try to make sure that it is as accurate as it can be.
Donald Trump himself actually said during his campaign that he essentially thinks being unpredictable is a good thing. Maybe that's a good thing in domestic politics, but in foreign policy, that is really stupid.
It is clear to me that creating a pathway for decryption only for good guys is technologically stupid. You just can't do that.
I think there is a lot of activism and energy from people all over America, and some of them are being represented by members that appear to be ignoring their constituents.
Everywhere you look in Washington, you can find examples of financial mismanagement.
The United States represents hope, freedom and opportunities to those who are born here and to those who are not. Those values are part of the United States' fabric.
I served on active duty and know that active duty personnel have basically zero interaction with the VA.
Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.
I came here as an immigrant. We were poor. We went to flea markets to sell gifts to make ends meet. Just the mere fact that I can be running for Congress is something that can only happen in a place like America. It's such a wonderful country.
I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre.
One thing I am scared of is the unlimited amounts of dark money that Republicans have access to in terms of the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson. There is a large pool of Republican mega-donors who can pump money into competitive races across America.
If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things. To some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter. Consider blaming yourself.
We have to remember the bigger picture: the U.S.-Israel alliance is too important to be hijacked by political interests or undermined by perceived riffs.
Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.
The only thing worse than watching an Alex Jones video is the government trying to tell Google not to do it - to prevent people form watching the Alex Jones video. We can't even do it if we tried.
I am a Democrat; I want to fund programs that help people. In order to do that, you need to have revenues and you have revenues when you have jobs.
I will fight hard for my constituents in Congress as I have done in the state Senate.
Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.
I think Kamala Harris would be a fantastic president. I've known her for many years. We've worked on a lot of issues together, including criminal justice reform and also specifically on bail reform. I think she is the leader we need who can unite the American people.
It's hurting Democrats if you do really go profoundly negative in the primary. Most of them don't. They actually realize the most effective use of their money is to make sure they stand out in front of the voters and the voters understand their story.
Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.
Donald Trump ran for president on a promise to 'drain the swamp.' I agreed with that particular statement. Unfortunately, he didn't mean what he said.
The suspicion that immigrants are not to be trusted or are unpatriotic is not just wrong; it is un-American. And dangerous.
The VA secretary runs the second largest federal agency in the country, providing services to American patriots who risked everything in service to this nation.
