Jamaal Bowman: “It is time for us to move from talk to action.”

You can’t be calm about this! I’m a black man in America! The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word…

Our priorities during this dictatorship and this oligarchy are completely strewed up. It's a military industrial complex. It's a corporatocracy, and it's Elon Musk who is stealing from the government, going into federal offices…

We are sitting here on March -- what is this -- whatever date it is, talking about a potential war with China on the same day that the Department of Education was shut down and hungry, poor children across this country may not be able to…

If your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage and grow, and stop being so hateful, we could have a better country, but unfortunately we’re still here.