James Talarico
speaker
4,239 appearances
18 recordings
14 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Jun
James Talarico’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I believe we're going to win.
My life has shown me always bet on the underdogs.
Whether it was a single mom from Laredo who fought for her baby boy, whether it was students on the west side of San Antonio who overcame poverty and injustice to succeed,
whether it's the bills I've been able to pass in the legislature as a Democrat in a Republican-dominated body to actually help working people, to help the underdogs in the state of Texas.
My life has shown me that it's a good bet to bet on the underdog.
A little bit of hope is a dangerous thing.
Our southern border should be like our front porch.
There should be a welcome mat and a lock on the door, meaning we can both welcome immigrants who want to come here and live the American dream, who want to contribute to our economy, who want to contribute to our communities, make us richer and stronger, as immigrants have always done throughout American history, and we can keep out people who mean to do us harm.
Yeah.
I trust Texas women to make decisions about their own bodies, to shape their own destinies in consultation with their family members, their doctors, their faith leaders.
I don't believe that's a place for government.
That's a belief I hold not despite my faith, but because of my faith.
Jesus never talks about abortion.
The Bible is silent on abortion.
And when that happens with a social issue as important as abortion, we Christians have to take scripture as a whole, and we've got to try to make some kind of ethical determination.
Yeah, it's a great question, and this is an issue that a lot of Christians struggle with, and that there's a lot of fierce and passionate debate about.
within our faith communities.
And so it's one I want to be very sensitive about because people of good faith can arrive at different moral conclusions.
And I feel like we do not have the kind of tolerance for that disagreement right now within the church, within our politics, and it's corrosive.
Because I think about someone like Pope Francis, I think about someone like Pope Leo, these are spiritual heroes of mine.
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