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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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" 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. "

Pramila Jayapal

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Young

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" 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. "

" I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful. "

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

" We the people are sick and tired of the criminalization of immigrants, sick to our hearts to see Trump's family separation policies rip families apart across our country. "

" I am grateful for my family, friends, and all those who send constant love and support - you are my energy and my hope. You teach me, love me even when I'm wrong, and let me ride the challenges and come out whole. "

" Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House. "

" 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

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" My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table. "

" We have to have a planet to pass on to the next generation, and these issues of climate change and climate justice and the disproportionate burdens that communities of color actually bear from our damaging climate is a huge issue. "

" 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. "

Pramila Jayapal

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

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

" What Republicans so cynically refer to as 'chain migration' is actually family-based immigration - a humane and compassionate policy of reunifying families. It allows spouses to be together, siblings to support each other, and children to be with their parents. It allows the immigrants who are already here to be successful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs. "

" Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens. "

" I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing. "

" 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. "

" We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works. "

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

Pramila Jayapal

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" Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles. "

" 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. "

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

" Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women. "

" We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left. "

" For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for their families, escape gender-based violence, or express their sexual identity. "

" Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more. "

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