"As much as e-cigarette companies imply that they are smoking-cessation products, none are approved by the FDA for that purpose."
"Well, the truth to you is very different for the majority of people in this room who do believe that children are being targeted by----"
"E-cigarettes were allowed onto the market without fully understanding the long-term effects and without regulation."
"What about traditional cigarettes? No."
"In practice, I truly believe that we've become testing ground, the American public, most disturbingly our American youth."
"Earlier this month, my home state of Michigan became the first to ban flavored e-cigarettes."
"This is very scary, and as a mom, you know, I hope e-cigarette users are aware of this fact"
"transformative change doesn't happen because it starts in the halls of Congress. It happens because of movement work"
"No taxation without representation was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution, and the full phrase was 'taxation without representation is tyranny.'"
"Yet, that they are deprived of having their elected officials vote in Congress, one of the most fundamental principles underlining our Constitution."
"I feel in many ways all the residents of the Washington D.C. area--in the District of Columbia are being denied access to that representation."