Rashida Tlaib Quotes

Rashida Tlaib

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 24, 1976

We demand Congress access and publicly release Donald Trump's tax returns!

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We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

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Big money has hijacked our politics.

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Resources and money can change people's lives today, where legislation can take years - up to 10, 15 years sometimes before it really, really impacts people.

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How long do we have to keep fighting for affordable prescription drugs?

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I'm just this girl that grew up in southwest Detroit.

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Detroit can't come close to repairing the decades of neglect without addressing the crisis in our neighborhoods. I live in southwest Detroit near Woodmere Cemetery. My neighbors and I deal with the negative impacts of job loss, increased poverty, and pollution every day.

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Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

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I have had the fortunate privilege of serving as a state representative for residents in the great cities of Detroit, River Rouge, and Ecorse.

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Trump has created an atmosphere wherein my sons are questioning their place and identity as Arab Americans and Muslims.

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I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

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Social niceties are not in order for men who would turn away refugees fleeing for their lives based on their faith to have them suffer in camps.

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I'm not a makeup girl!

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Confrontational or not, my approach to public service has always been fighting for my families.

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Being in southwest Detroit, when my dad would want to say anything about me or my brothers or sisters, he would start speaking in Spanish to my uncle and my grandmother because we didn't understand.

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I really truly respect and honor the fact that the majority of my district is African-American and that I have to make sure that I surround myself with people with that lens.

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I'm never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.

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I was my mother's translator until I was probably 12 years old, and I remember how people looked at her.

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I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

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I remember the different things that were happening to my family as we were getting situated and buying our first home in southwest Detroit, watching my mother learn how to drive for the first time.

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