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" Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles. "
Pramila Jayapal
Never
Compromise
Good
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" I really get my best work done in the morning, so if I have to edit speeches or comments, that all happens before I get to work. "
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" I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be. "
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" People who think that the immigration system is easy and people should just apply legally - it just isn't that easy. "
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" When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line. "
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" When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power. "
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" I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities. "
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" I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years. "
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" We have to remember that disagreeing with people is fine; it is dehumanizing people that is not, and when that happens, we have to be ready to speak up. "
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" The American people expect their leaders to condemn white supremacy in unambiguous terms. President Trump not only failed at condemning white supremacists and neo-Nazis, he stood up for them - for that, he must be censured. "
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" This is the country that we are turning over to young people, and there is going to be no country left at this rate because Trump is destroying the soul of who we are. "
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" I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to. "
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Body
Fast
" I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful. "
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" I've always thought of the United States as a place where so much was possible and so many opportunities were out there. "
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Always
" Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world. "
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" I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it. "
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" The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's what I spent my life working on. It became a place to see what we've become as a country, and how overreach can actually serve to bring those of us on the Left and Democrats together. "
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" Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country. "
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College
Education
Future
" We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works. "
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" I actually had a number of different careers. I worked on Wall Street; I was a Master's in Business. I left that to work in the public sector. "
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" I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time. "
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" When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there. "
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" Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it. "
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" OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement for marriage equality in Washington. "
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" We are a country that has always been known for providing opportunities to people. We have lost a lot of that opportunity. "
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" We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up. "
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" Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy. "
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" Rather than name-calling and arguing about whether it is appropriate or not to employ radical tactics, we progressives need to start listening to each other. "
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