“We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine ...” — Rashida Tlaib Quote

We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.

I'm tired of just introducing legislation that's just not going to change our lives. It's going beyond that.

In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.

My dad's first-ever real true job was at Ford Motor Company. He was a UAW member.

In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was convicted of criminal contempt when he refused. Arpaio, by targeting Latinx people, was violating both the U.S. Constitution and our civil rights.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.