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" If there is one thing that resonates for women, it is that regardless of where we come from or what we look like, we want to be fully recognized for the breadth of our contributions. "

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" Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good. "

Pramila Jayapal

Rich

Corruption

Famous

" I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years. "

" 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. "

Pramila Jayapal

Body

Fast

" Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most. "

" We need to incentivize states across our country to spend on higher education and ensure that we go back to allowing people to go to college tuition-free. "

" As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody. "

" I would attend a State of the Union by a president with whom I disagree if I felt she or he was otherwise respectful and adhered to basic moral values or basic tenets of civility and respect. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women. "

" If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party. "

" There's nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life. "

" We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up. "

" We are a country that has always been known for providing opportunities to people. We have lost a lot of that opportunity. "

" I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom. "

" Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world. "

" 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. "

" There were not that many people who were willing to come out and stand up for Muslims or stand up against the abuses of the Bush administration. That was post-9/11, so I think there was a lot of fear at the time about exactly what that meant - were they unpatriotic if they stood up? "

Pramila Jayapal

Fear

Time

" I like to have my cup of green tea. "

Pramila Jayapal

Green

Cup

" As difficult as my story is, it's nothing compared to the people I've worked with. And so I just want to do everything I can to make sure that America continues to be a land of opportunity and hope for people and refuge for people from all over the world. "

" I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be. "

" My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. "

Pramila Jayapal

Appreciate

Language

" Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people. "

" I've always believed that immigration is really about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand up for. "

" It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes. "

" History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence. "

" I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. "

" What makes America great is our commitment to our values of inclusivity and opportunity for all. "

" For immigrant women, fighting for some of the standard platforms of the women's movement may feel unthinkable when deportation is staring you in the face every day. "

" Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential. "