Ami Bera quotes:

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

I believe in the American Dream, because I've lived it.

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.