If elected, I will work with federal leaders to rehouse the non-immigration enforcement functions of ICE - including human trafficking and money… — Ayanna Pressley Homeland security Copy Share Image
Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to… — Ayanna Pressley Bad Copy Share Image
At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized. — Ayanna Pressley Another Copy Share Image
There's many law changes, policy changes I can point to. But a lot of my work has also been to name the… — Ayanna Pressley Change Copy Share Image
I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to… — Ayanna Pressley Alone Copy Share Image
I think people want to live in a city that is welcoming and inclusive. I don't think people want to feel that… — Ayanna Pressley City Copy Share Image
Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts. — Ayanna Pressley Clear Copy Share Image
My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however… — Ayanna Pressley Change Copy Share Image
In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation. — Ayanna Pressley Disruption Copy Share Image
Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do. — Ayanna Pressley Communication Copy Share Image
Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it. — Ayanna Pressley Community Copy Share Image
People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were. — Ayanna Pressley Animal Copy Share Image
I'm doing what Democrats said we needed to coming out of 2016, after that sobering defeat, which is to build a bench,… — Ayanna Pressley Defeat Copy Share Image
I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only… — Ayanna Pressley Identity Copy Share Image
I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get… — Ayanna Pressley Identity Copy Share Image
I knew I would be demonized as entitled and what no woman can ever be: ambitious. — Ayanna Pressley Ambitious Copy Share Image
We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform in this nation, and yes, comprehensive immigration reform proposals are nuanced and complicated, but you know… — Ayanna Pressley Complicated Copy Share Image
I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I… — Ayanna Pressley City Copy Share Image
From drug companies to health insurers to Wall Street banks, big corporations are spending millions to buy influence in Washington and drown… — Ayanna Pressley Corporations Copy Share Image
I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do… — Ayanna Pressley Better Copy Share Image
My mother lost her job, so I left school to work full-time to support her. — Ayanna Pressley Lost Copy Share Image
