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Ted Lieu

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 29, 1969

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.

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One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.

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I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

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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.

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We need to increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.

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I think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.

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Partisanship should have no role in the vital U.S.-Israel relationship.

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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.

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In my experience, bad actors respond to threats of military action or sanctions.

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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.

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California voters are very aware that the Trump administration has been disproportionately awful for the Golden State.

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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.

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Voters are smarter than Republicans think they are.

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It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

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I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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