You have to understand government and you have to understand how hard it is.
I know a lot about what government does do, can do, should do.
I think government actually does create jobs.
I'm tough.
I'll create public and private partnerhsips to rebuild our infrastructure.
When you're not sure what your constituents want, if you have a more conservative approach, or you have a wait-and-see approach - boy, voters were pretty clear about what they expect.
You don't want a second-class set of citizens inside the United States.
I want to be really clear that the Hispanic Caucus - well before my time on that caucus, and certainly before my time as chairwoman - has been very clear that a guiding principle for comprehensive immigration reform, and for issues related to Dreamers, is that a wall is a nonstarter.
I think, in general, we've created an environment where we've done away with the sort of day-to-day training that's necessary, including crisis intervention, behavioral health training - the kinds of things that we know that both protect officers and the community - and moved away to a highly military, advanced SWAT team mentality.
I am strongly committed to evidence-based policymaking across government.
We must be particularly careful when we enact policies in response to a specific crime, a specific type of crime, or crime wave simply by increasing punishments.
Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining public safety and their responsibility to taxpayers.
New Mexicans are ready to take state government right back!
I'm not Pollyanna.
Are we going to be risk-averse about health care, education, child well-being, or are we going to set aside those attitudes, which we find in government all too often, and lead?
Women are good at multi-tasking.
I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can't act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.
I paid absolutely no attention to politics as a teenager.
I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.
It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.
