Quotes by Mazie Hirono - Page 2

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 / United States Senator
Bad Things
Black And White
Good Person
Single Person
Life Good Done
Gee
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There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Marginalized
Fight Day People
Discriminated
Every Single Day
Single Day
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Draws
Real Problems
Companies
Exist
Tech
Tech Companies
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Diversifying our energy sources will create jobs, improve our national security and lay the foundation for a strong, sustainable economy in the future.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Energy Sources
National Security
Future Energy Will
Sustainable
Lay
Sources
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Arena
Hawaii
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Activists
Political Arena
Protesting
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Familiar
Preparation
Nomination
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Senate
Severe
People Know Country
Concerns
Country People Know
Millions Of People
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Hawaii - the Aloha state - is built on the strength of its multicultural society, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the many immigrants that followed.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Hawaii
Immigrants
Indigenous
Multicultural
Native
Followed
Hawaiian
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We all know that the earlier cancer is detected the more successful treatment will be, and my cancer had spread to my ribs and that was a very fast-growing cancer.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Ribs
Spread
Treatment
Will Know More
Earlier
Fast-Growing
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That used to be one of my greatest fears growing up: my mom would get sick and then she wouldn't be able to go to work and then there is no food or money for rent.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Fears
Rent
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One of my favorite Japanese foods is called natto. It's fermented soybeans. I grew up in Japan eating natto. It's definitely an acquired taste. It's basically smelly.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Acquired Taste
Japan
Smelly
Acquired
Foods
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The passing of my friend and a great American hero, Dan Inouye, is a major loss for the country and Hawaii. But the people of Hawaii are strong and we will persevere.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Great American
Hawaii
Passing
Persevere
Dan
My Friend
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Arms
Arms Race
Nuclear Arms
Other Countries
Pace
Capabilities
Proceed
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Our country is made up of groups of immigrants who came here hoping for a better life. They created America. It's a sad thing to have so many people not remember that, including Trump.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Better Life
Immigrants
Hoping
Sad Thing
So Many People
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The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Break Up
Broke
Founding
Penalties
Empire
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Undocumented
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Disagree
Lawsuit
Gosh
Notice
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Decrease
Work Day People
Make A Difference
Screwed
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Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
New Year
Slate
Reflect
Resolutions
Stock
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Our military's presence in Hawaii not only plays a critical role in our national security but also in driving our state's economy and supporting thousands of jobs in the public and private sectors.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Hawaii
National Security
Presence
Sectors
Supporting
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Immigration
Immigration Reform
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Both political parties should be able to support the idea that taxpayers who are lawfully present, working, and paying taxes should be able to use the programs their tax dollars pay for - it is only fair.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Political Parties
Tax Dollars
Programs
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I was in sixth grade at Koko Head Elementary School in Honolulu, and was chosen to pin the 50th star on the American flag in front of my teachers and classmates at a special assembly to celebrate statehood.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
American Flag
Assembly
Celebrate
Chosen
Classmates
Elementary School
Honolulu
Sixth
Elementary
Flag
Pin
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Courageous
Making Decisions
Family Always I Am
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I've been very open about my health challenge because I think it's really important to let my constituents know that in spite of the fact that I am still in treatment, nothing about this treatment prevents me from doing my job.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Spite
Treatment
Health I Am Me
Prevents
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I am fighting kidney cancer. And I'm just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that was going to probably save my life.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Health Insurance
Heck
Insurance
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Clearly, there is a growing market for affordable, abundant and sustainable energy. Industry is working to meet the needs of this market, and in the process is creating jobs, technologies and industries in states across the country.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Affordable
Abundant
Sustainable
Industries
Technologies
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Jobs
Add
Dynamism
Economy
Immigrants
Drive
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When we in Congress set the terms under which immigrants in this country must live, we wield a power that is checked primarily by our individual sense of fairness: the power to set taxes and make laws that apply to people who do not have representation.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Fairness
Immigrants
Representation
Checked
Power Live People
Power Country People
Primarily
Wield
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Asian
Faces
Elected
Encourages
Sees
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Teacher
Becoming
My Generation
Nurse
Path
Track
Usual
Days
Course
Wrong
Generation
Took
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Manipulative
Senate
Heart People Way
Fears
Forth
Retreats
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I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'
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Government
Buddhist
Gay
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For the Navy, developing alternatives to fossil fuels isn't just about fighting climate change - though that's an important side benefit. Biofuels will also play a much more practical role in the Navy's fuel mix, boosting our energy security and supporting the U.S. economy.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Alternatives
Climate
Climate Change
Developing
Economy
Energy Security
Fighting
Fuel
Navy
Security
Benefit
Change Energy Important
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Mix
Practical
Supporting
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Accomplished
Driven
Fortitude
Remarkable
Single Parent
Testament
Current
Entire Life
Struggled
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I had run other people's campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself. That is so much the experience of women of my generation. We always feel as though we have to bring so much more to the table, and that never stops the guys.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Campaigns
My Generation
Activities
Decade
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Leadership
Commitment
Credit
Done
Leader
Loud
Obnoxious
Problem
Typical
Vision
Work Women Great
Women Are
True
Often
Image
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When I arrived at the Capitol in 2007 to take my oath as a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I had the privilege of filling the seat held for so long and so well by my friend Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress. I was so grateful to her.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Asian American
Capitol
Filling
House Of Representatives
Mink
Oath
Representatives
Seat
My Friend
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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.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Disease
Environment
Hawaii
Leader
Losing
Marine
Steps
Suffering
Sunscreen
Why
Afford
Cannot
Continue
Coral
Number
Harmful
Impacts
Mitigate
Taking
Temperatures
Threats
Warmer
Waters
We Cannot
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My friend Patsy Mink was a champion for social and economic justice, equality and civil rights for women and marginalized communities. She was a trailblazer who never backed down from a challenge and whose work in Hawaii and Congress brought positive change to the lives of women, children, and minorities in Hawaii and across the country.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Equality
Civil Rights
Congress
Economic
Economic Justice
Hawaii
Marginalized
Mink
Positive Change
Rights
Positive Change Work
Across
Backed
Brought
Challenge
Friend
Civil
Communities
My Friend
Whose
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Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While I'm glad to see our seniors receive an increase for the second year in a row, I wish the cost-of-living adjustment could be larger. However, every little bit helps make a difference in these tough economic times.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Mother
Retirement
Senior
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