Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for her incredible leadership. It has been wonderful working with her not just here in this body and in the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which I am proud to co-chair, but for years we have known each other and worked together. It is wonderful to have her here to talk about this issue and her leadership on this issue, really the kind of leadership that America needs to show by passing the NO BAN Act. Three years ago, I had just been elected to Congress, and it was within my first weeks here that Donald Trump issued his first Muslim ban. When that happened, I thought back to after 9/11--that is actually when I started becoming very involved in politics as an activist. We faced some similar situations of Muslims, Arab Americans, and others being targeted simply for their religion, their ethnicity, their place of origin. The good news is that I knew what to do, which is that I immediately rushed to the airport. That Muslim ban created irreparable harm on Muslim families, here at home, but also around the world. We had generals in our military testify that we desperately need to have our allies and that some of those allies are, in fact, Muslims who help us in other countries.…”