I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.
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I was just a young lawyer thinking, What am I doing with my life? What am I doing with my career? As I watched [Hillary Clinton] on that stage I thought, Why aren’t I there? It was so poignant for me. And that’s what made me figure out how to get involved in politics.
— Kirsten Gillibrand, The Reintroduction of Kirsten Gillibrand
[Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She’…
Before understanding deep breathing’s physiological benefits, you first have to grasp how your body responds to stress. As most people have experienced, when you’re worried, upset, or anxious, you can feel it viscerally — your heart starts to beat faster and faster, you can feel dizzy, and blood rus…
It’s 'Drynuary,' and while the practice of nixing the devil’s water for 31 days straight has been touted for the last handful of years as the solution to many a booze-related health ailment, it’s also really good for your bank account.
By fighting for the core Democratic values that unite us while holding President Trump accountable next year, we will achieve a strong, diverse and lasting Democratic majority.
— Cheri Bustos, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos’ Announces Bid for Assistant Democratic Leader if Democrats win the Majority
As Democrats, our strength has always come from our diversity. My vision for this role will be to engage the entire Caucus to support one another, but particularly our new and most vulnerable members. We will achieve this by sharing best practices and tactics across districts, whether they be urban,…
— Cheri Bustos, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos’ Announces Bid for Assistant Democratic Leader if Democrats win the Majority
We have to give some certainty to these young men and women—some of these young women that have families now—about what is their status in this country. So I think everyone's, you know, kind of dancing around the main topic. But at the end of the day, we're just going to have to come to the realizat…
My vision for this role will be to engage the entire Caucus to support one another, but particularly our new and most vulnerable members. We will achieve this by sharing best practices and tactics across districts, whether they be urban, suburban or rural. By fighting for the core Democratic values…
— Cheri Bustos, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos’ Announces Bid for Assistant Democratic Leader if Democrats win the Majority
And then, one day, I remember going to the supermarket here in Delaware, and there was a family in front of me, a father and a couple of kids. He had put back a bunch of grapes because they were five dollars a bunch and he couldn't afford it. It was this turning point. I just realized that I wasn't…
— Lisa Blunt Rochester, How Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester Turned Her All-Consuming Grief Into Political Motivation
As Democrats, our strength has always come from our diversity and, if we win in November, I intend to run for Assistant Democratic Leader with a focus on protecting a new Democratic majority beyond the 2020 cycle so we can deliver bold change for the American people.
— Cheri Bustos, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos’ Announces Bid for Assistant Democratic Leader if Democrats win the Majority
And as I grew up, I was lucky that my first bosses, the ones that really took me under their wings, were very strong women who guided me and pushed me.
— Lisa Blunt Rochester, How Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester Turned Her All-Consuming Grief Into Political Motivation
As a young, young girl, I probably didn't know about women like Rosa Parks. I wasn't that kid who said, 'Someday, I want to be in Congress.' But I knew my grandmothers, and they were incredible people.
— Lisa Blunt Rochester, How Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester Turned Her All-Consuming Grief Into Political Motivation
I have legislative policies that I'm interested in—equal pay for equal work, child care, paid leave, college affordability, education, agriculture. But outside of that, I feel it's critical that people be passionate and feel invested in politics. I want to see women run for office at all levels. And…
On the day of the swearing-in, it really hit me, the significance of the whole thing. It hadn't sunk in until I was standing there on the floor with my hand in the air and reciting that oath. It's one of the highlights of my life. I carried a scarf with me that my sister had made for me. She started…
We've had a lot of conversations about what we're willing to do. And border security has always been a part of that. You know, what we're not going to do is fund a stupid wall for the sake of saying that we funded a wall, for the sake of, you know, fulfilling the president's ego and, specifically, h…
Thirty to 40 percent of these women came with children who had been forcibly taken away from them. None got a chance to say goodbye to their children—they were forcibly taken away. One said she was deceived, because they were in detention together. Then the CBP officers told her she was going out to…
— Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Pramila Jayapal—‘They Could Hear Their Children Screaming for Them in the Next Room’
I will gladly work with the President when his ideas aren't stupid and detrimental to the United States. Unfortunately, this is what this plan is. It was not planned out.
I do feel frustrated because I think that we had the best opportunity to pass this when we had it all together at once. And, you know, there's a lot of, you know, talk about taking care of our military. And I think people forget that there is 10,000 DREAMers that are actually in—well, 1,000 that are…
We need smart and tough strategies to keep our nation safe, not reckless, dangerous, and unconstitutional policies.
— Ben Ray Lujan, Immigration | U.S. Congressman Ben Ray Luján