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Madeleine Dean

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Madeleine Dean is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in Congress since January 3, 2019. Dean has focused on various issues, including healthcare, education, and women's rights during her time in office. She has been an advocate for gun control and has worked on legislation aimed at protecting the environment and addressing climate change.

Quotes by year · 2019–2026469 total · peak 2019 (167)
2019: 167 quotes2020: 45 quotes2021: 117 quotes2022: 36 quotes2023: 38 quotes2024: 42 quotes2025: 7 quotes2026: 17 quotes
Jul 24, 2019

The children retained their humanity... while the guards... their humanity is being drained out.

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Jul 24, 2019

Telling women to drink out of a stainless steel toilet?

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Jul 24, 2019

For 52 days, that is the comfort they had. No cots, no sleeping bags, no personal affects.

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Jul 24, 2019

They were told to drink out of the toilet. That water is clean enough.

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Jul 24, 2019

Clint is an insanity. We saw only 25 children there.

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Jul 24, 2019

I wish I had more time because I did have the sad privilege of visiting Texas, El Paso Border Station No. 1 and also Clint.

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Jul 24, 2019

The administration's family separation policy has stained our Nation and will have lasting effects on those who are subjected to it.

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Jul 24, 2019

Here is the problem. We also visited Clint, and in Clint, we saw behind glass--you wouldn't let us anywhere near them--six children, little children.

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Jul 24, 2019

Imagine that. The children retained their humanity as the guards on the outside because of the pressures of this administration, the inhumanity and the incompetence of this administration, their humanity is being drained out while the…

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Jul 24, 2019

Happy 18th birthday from this administration.

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Jul 23, 2019

The summary letter that the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office's work and conclusions.

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Jul 23, 2019

We shall not shrink from that duty.

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Jul 23, 2019

The President took full advantage of that confusion by falsely claiming your report found no obstruction.

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Jul 16, 2019

You cannot be more specific than that when the very thing you are putting before us today, a preformed association, is the exact same idea of what you just talked about, putting something forward without really testing it all first?

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Jul 16, 2019

No, we do need to trust you. We absolutely need to trust you.

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Jul 16, 2019

Again, Facebook has to learn some lessons, lessons that you can actually say in open testimony to the public as to the wrongdoing and the misuse of information.

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Jul 16, 2019

It is tough to trust when the collection, storage, and misuse of information of your users generated a $5 billion recommended fine.

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Jul 15, 2019

I believe passionately that everyone deserves a second chance and sometimes a third chance, but deserves to be measured, not only for their worst act, but also for their best acts and the best things they are capable of.

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Jul 15, 2019

We need to not just lock people up, but we need to, as I like to say, bury them alive. We need to actually help them.

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Jul 15, 2019

I think we need to allow a person--I mean, I understand punishment in crime, but the punishment needs to fit the crime.

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Jul 15, 2019

I was on the judiciary Committee there, constantly fighting new mandatory minimums.

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Jun 25, 2019

Sometimes people just think their offices are diverse, and then they actually take a moment to look around, and then they find they aren't.

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Jun 25, 2019

It is being sort of deliberate and intentional about making sure you are looking at that.

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Jun 25, 2019

Are you also looking at diversity and inclusion across the board in the organization?

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Jun 24, 2019

If you do not own transportation, and there is no public transportation, the closure of a polling place that is 2 miles from your house now being moved to 10 miles from your house has not only a chilling effect on your right to vote, it…

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