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Ayanna Pressley

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Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2019. She made history as the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley is known for her progressive stances on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration policy.

Quotes by year · 201120261,152 total · peak 2019 (443)
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Apr 26, 2022

I want to commend you on your work to bring the CFPB back on the side of consumers.

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Apr 26, 2022

I will reclaim my time and look forward to that information if you can't provide it here in the committee hearing today.

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Apr 26, 2022

your apologies feel empty and insincere and sort of PR responses, because McKinsey was profiting off of the hurt and harm for years with zero remorse.

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Apr 26, 2022

the banks have certainly proven that they can't be expected to voluntarily reform themselves, and so legislative intervention really is sorely needed.

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Apr 26, 2022

Like the Sackler family in Purdue Pharma, McKinsey & Company, you have been complicit in creating this country's opioid crisis and profiting off of the pain of millions of families.

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Apr 26, 2022

Thank you to the committee staff who drafted the report detailing the deceptive, callous, and immoral role that McKinsey has played in furthering the opioid epidemic.

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Apr 26, 2022

As the people's lawyer, General Healey has been a national leader in efforts to confront the opioid public health crisis.

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Apr 26, 2022

Offering an apology while avoiding responsibility is really worthless. What you have done is unconscionable.

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Apr 6, 2022

Across the country, scholars are calling out, rightfully so, how banning books on race and LGBTQ issues from our schools are impeding their education and their own personal development and growth.

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Apr 6, 2022

These book bans are really no more than a malicious political campaign of erasure, erasure of civil rights history...

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Apr 5, 2022

Would you at least be willing to go on record and say that you would review this surcharge policy?

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Apr 5, 2022

I think the detrimental impacts of these fees and its governments' abilities to effectively combat the pandemic is not really up for debate.

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