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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've always thought of the United States as a place where so much was possible and so many opportunities were out there. "

Pramila Jayapal

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Place

Always

" 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. "

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

" I like being on a plane with no phone service because I get so much work done. "

Pramila Jayapal

Done

Work

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

" I never thought I would run for office. "

" There isn't really precedent for asylum seekers' being criminally prosecuted at the border before they've had a 'credible fear' hearing. You come seeking asylum. Seeking asylum is not illegal. "

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

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

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

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

" Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that. "

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

" People who think that the immigration system is easy and people should just apply legally - it just isn't that easy. "

" Corporations and special interests have their voice in Congress, and they have too many members scared of their power. What Congress needs is a progressive voice who is unafraid to take on these powerful interests - who is willing to fight for all Americans, not just the wealthiest 1 percent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building. "

" Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box - and reclassify some of the ideas that we've called 'progressive,' but that are really mainstream ideas, like college for all - the better. "

" 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 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. "

" If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it. "

Pramila Jayapal

Determined

Someone

" 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 feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight. "

" Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it. "

" There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone. "

" If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind raising the minimum wage and be clear on where we stand on trade deals. "

" 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. "

" Immigration is about more than just who comes here and who is allowed to stay. It is about who we are as a country and what we are willing to stand up for. "