Ilhan Omar

You can't pray our problems away.

You can't pray your problems away.

I am appalled that we get to sit here and have conversations as Americans about being the most charitable country in the world, and not being charitable enough to house our homeless, feed our children, care for our veterans.

It is not because of the lack of love that we are not able to feed our children.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 310. Amendment No. 65 Offered by Ms. Porter The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from…

This Administration, selling them billions of dollars of weapons, is dangerous and it is outrageous.

I believe that our relationship with them, in its current form, is immoral, but it is not only immoral, it is counterproductive to our national security.

I hope that we will reassess our relationship with them in trying to make sure that we are stabilizing that region and that we are continuing to engage in our war against terror.

I have a proposal to get rid of this welfare system to the fossil fuel industry.

Education is the greatest equalizer but we also have to first equalize the situation so young people are able to attain that education.

As a survivor of war, accountability and justice is really important to me.

This amendment will ensure that that certification will be based on the actual enjoyment of human rights by El Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, and Honduran people, and not allow the government of Juan Orlando Hernandez and Jimmy Morales to game…

I believe democracy should not be given; they should be earned by the people.

And it seems like the particular conflict in Syria is being birthed out of a need for the people to have freedom and to actualize democracy.

So, I just wanted to really get into this horrific reign of terror and its spread in Africa.

I cannot run for Congress because the person, the only seat I can run for is occupied by Keith Ellison.

when you have a president who uses language like 'shithole countries' it makes it really hard for people in Africa to sort of think themselves as being in partnership with the United States.

we know that in Somalia, particularly in dealing with Al-Shabaab, since President Trump has gotten elected the number of drones has increased, but the number of attacks that Al-Shabaab has been able to carry out has also tripled.

This was a trend which actually began in the Obama Administration which prosecuted eight journalists' sources under the Espionage Act, which is an overly broad, in our view, instrument for this purpose and has a chilling effect on the…

So, in addition to often times working less because they are providing care, they may be facing discrimination in labor markets.

I seem to think that you should tax people with higher income brackets, the millionaires, the billionaires higher...

Thank you, Chairman Deutch, for allowing me to join you in this subcommittee.

I felt like that would be the case in Libya, and the Somali diaspora used to say Libya will become the next Somalia.

Humans cannot be sold and us not respond.

I really oftentimes do not understand people who think that we are able to save more lives by asking for regime change or by interfering in situations that oftentimes will exasperate with our intervention.