Zoe Lofgren Quotations

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.

One of the things we need to assess as we look at the India proposal is the impact on Iran and North Korea and other nations that are looking to expand or start their nuclear programs and whether this encourages nuclear proliferation or not.

I think it's a blessing that we've managed to keep the heavy hand of regulation off the Internet, ... When the government moves in to regulate the Internet, we'll almost always get it wrong.

I think we need to press for progress when it comes to the information-sharing environment, not just internally in the department but among all the various agencies.

We knew going into this meeting that we were not going to walk away with a check from the federal government, ... a good working plan to pursue this further.

Ben Franklin called it the alternative to assassination,

The rules of the House require that his written testimony be in our possession 48 hours before he appears, ... It's one o'clock now -- a little after -- and we are still waiting. He is not following those rules. And I can only assume it is to try to pull some kind of gotcha-surprise.

Nowhere in the letter does it say, 'Vote against the budget reconciliation package,' ... We're asking, does the governor wants us to vote yes or to vote no?

He's got an amiable demeanor, and some people mistake that for being reasonable, ... He isn't. He is not a micrometer away from whatever the Republican leadership wants him to do.

Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass.