Bob Matsui Quotes

United States, Politician
September 17, 1941 – January, 1, 2005.

Robert Takeo Matsui was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's 5th congressional district until his death at the end of his 13th term. The Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse is named in his honor.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

Bob Matsui
- Parents
- Trial
- Charges
These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

Bob Matsui
- War
- News
- Americans

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

Bob Matsui
I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

Bob Matsui
I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

Bob Matsui