Pramila Jayapal

The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's…

— Pramila Jayapal

Some people have called me the anti-Trump, and I'm so proud.

— Pramila Jayapal

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

— Pramila Jayapal

I would attend a State of the Union by a president with whom I disagree if I felt she or he was…

— Pramila Jayapal

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

— Pramila Jayapal

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

— Pramila Jayapal

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

— Pramila Jayapal

Trump has hated Amazon for a long time, and I think that that came out in many interviews that he's done with…

— Pramila Jayapal

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

— Pramila Jayapal

It took me 17 years to become a U.S. citizen.

— Pramila Jayapal

When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that…

— Pramila Jayapal

When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they…

— Pramila Jayapal

I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get…

— Pramila Jayapal

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

— Pramila Jayapal

The vast majority of immigrants - regardless of the conditions of war and poverty that may wrack their home countries - come…

— Pramila Jayapal

I really get my best work done in the morning, so if I have to edit speeches or comments, that all happens…

— Pramila Jayapal

This is the country that we are turning over to young people, and there is going to be no country left at…

— Pramila Jayapal

I am not a woman on Monday, an immigrant on Tuesday, a worker on Wednesday, and a mom on Thursday, I am…

— Pramila Jayapal

Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.

— Pramila Jayapal

There were not that many people who were willing to come out and stand up for Muslims or stand up against the…

— Pramila Jayapal

Immigration is about more than just who comes here and who is allowed to stay. It is about who we are as…

— Pramila Jayapal

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play,…

— Pramila Jayapal

Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and…

— Pramila Jayapal

Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box…

— Pramila Jayapal

I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the…

— Pramila Jayapal