Ritchie Torres Quotes

Ritchie Torres

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 12, 1988

Even in our moment of greatest darkness, there is light. And there is hope. And there is hope not only for our own lives, but we should be hopeful about our ability to change the world.

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With a multi-billion dollar market capitalization, crypto is here to stay. It's not going anywhere.

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Every industry has actors good and bad. Crypto is no exception. The best actors should be left to innovate, while the worst should be held to account.

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A federal framework for regulating crypto, especially one that commands bipartisan buy-in, will take time to develop because almost nothing in D.C. happens overnight.

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I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in the 1990s was $4.25 an hour. And I grew up in public housing, in conditions of mold and mildew, leaks and lead, without reliable heat and hot water in the winter.

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I want to break the stigma, the silence and shame that often surrounds mental illness.

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I grew up in a public housing development right across the street from Trump Golf Course.

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Circulating on social media is a vicious lie - a lie that deceptively reframes the terrorism of Hamas as self-defense and deceptively reframes the self-defense of Israel as terrorism.

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I never thought I would embark on a journey that would take me from public housing in the Bronx to the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.

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Wall Street loves to extol the virtues of diversity, but we are asking Wall Street to put its money where its mouth is.

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I feel no shame in admitting that I take an antidepressant every day. That enables me to be a productive public servant who's risen to national politics.

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We have to isolate Putin's regime as a pariah state, and we have to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

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New York is a tale of two cities. You have the gilded city and the other city, and the core of the other city is the New York City Housing Authority.

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With ranked choice voting, every vote matters more than ever before, and it matters to every single candidate.

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I think the Afro Latino identity represents a level of diversity and intersectionality that is confusing to the mainstream media.

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The Financial Oversight and Management Board represents a cardinal sin against the sovereignty and self-determination of Puerto Rico. It is the single most egregious example of modern-day colonialism in Puerto Rico and must be disbanded.

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There's a sense in which the media narrative diminishes me. I resist the temptation to fit into a preconceived narrative.

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I'm a legislator at heart; I'm a fighter at heart.

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I was a 24-year-old, Afro-Latino, gay kid struggling to fully come to terms with his sexual identity, and terrified to run as an openly LGBT candidate because of the homophobic culture that people like Ruben Diaz Sr. created in the Bronx.

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I feel like if I'm going to be a congressman who represents the South Bronx, I have to be the most visible and vocal champion of the urban poor and of working people.

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