Pramila Jayapal Quotes

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Pramila Jayapal

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 21, 1965

I am not a woman on Monday, an immigrant on Tuesday, a worker on Wednesday, and a mom on Thursday, I am all of those things all of the time, and I am going to fight for all of those things all of the time.

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We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.

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I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

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Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

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Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.

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I've always believed that immigration is really about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand up for.

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Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box - and reclassify some of the ideas that we've called 'progressive,' but that are really mainstream ideas, like college for all - the better.

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We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

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It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes.

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I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it.

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I have an incredibly supportive family.

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Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country.

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There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

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Immigrants contribute more than they take. It is a lie that they take public benefits, because they don't qualify for just about every benefit.

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I am on the side of the working person across the country.

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The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's what I spent my life working on. It became a place to see what we've become as a country, and how overreach can actually serve to bring those of us on the Left and Democrats together.

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We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left.

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Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No!

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If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind raising the minimum wage and be clear on where we stand on trade deals.

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As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that.

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