“I like to think about growing and nurturing and loving.”— Rashida Tlaib, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Growing, nurturing, Loving
“Acknowledge the fact that we are women of color, so when you do single us out, be aware of that and what you're doing especially because some of us are getting death threats, because some of us are being singled out in many ways because of our backgrounds, because of our experiences and so forth.”— Rashida Tlaib, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Women Of Color, Death Threats
“I wanted them to know they belonged. I wanted that little girl that was inspired by all of us, in looking to all of us, I mean young people just driving, just saying thank you so much for running because I can see myself in you.”— Rashida Tlaib, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Little Girls, Belonging
“I’m gonna be unapologetic in myself. Seventy percent of Americans curse. I am real. This is who I am.”— Rashida Tlaib, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Cursing, Unapologetic
“I'm trying to represent my district, a very diverse district with 20 different ethnicities. And I'm trying to fight on their behalf, trying to make sure that they have a voice here. At the same time, I'm dealing with the biggest bully I've ever had to deal with in my lifetime and trying to push back…”— Rashida Tlaib, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Donald Trump, bullies
“How many times did Senator Kennedy look to advance health care? So, you know, ultimately the, the victory, sometimes the the victory is in the fight.”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Ted Kennedy, Healthcare, victory, Persistence
“What we are, are four women who have an alignment of values, shared policy priorities, who have repeatedly happen to land in the same place on the issue of immigration. That is it. There is no insurgency here. There's nothing conspiratorial.”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Immigration
“I'm focused on equity and justice and that's what I was sent here to do.”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, equity, Justice
“I care about the rejection, the denouncing, and the condemnation not simply from a—a values frame or from a frame of being collegial because this is an august body, a rarefied era that we operating in.”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Rejection, Condemnation
“We are in a Democratic majority. This is a huge freshmen class. The only class that has rivaled us in size were the Watergate Babies, against a very similar backdrop of corruption and chaos, right. And so because we are such a big caucus, there is a diversity of lived experience, of ideologies. Even…”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Democrats, Watergate
“I can't muster inflated outrage and feign surprise about an act that is very consistent with who this person has shown themselves to be.”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Outrage, Donald Trump
“I'm trying to represent my district, a very diverse district with 20 different ethnicities. And I'm trying to fight on their behalf, trying to make sure that they have a voice here. At the same time, I'm dealing with the biggest bully I've ever had to deal with in my lifetime and trying to push back…”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Representation, diverse, bully, Donald Trump
“He does not embody the principles, the responsibility, the grace, the integrity of a true president and so for that reason, I'm not dishonoring the office. He does every day. He dishonors it by appealing to the most base part of who we are as a society, but this is very predictable.”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, Donald Trump
“I am heartened, and we all are, encouraged and grateful for the solidarity that that has been offered by our colleagues, by our neighbors, and by a people representing every walk of life since this happened, but I do feel that I'm sort of sitting from a place of privilege that we can have this level…”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.comTagged: The Squad, solidarity, Hate, Eric Garner
“This is a man who has deep-seated animosity and hatred, who feels so small, who works so hard to make others feel beneath him and so I think it is even ludicrous for us to have the space to dignify what he says with an answer.”— Ilhan Omar, cbsnews.comTagged: Donald Trump, Hate, Appeal to Motive, The Squad
“We do want to create a system that is of the people, for the people. Many of the policies that we advocate, whether it is Medicare for all, or cancelling out student debt, or dealing with our climate crisis, most of those policies poll at 70 percent plus.”— Ilhan Omar, cbsnews.comTagged: Student Debt, Medicare, Climate Change, The Squad
“I have taken I think every single opportunity I've gotten to make sure that people understand that my work and one of my responsibilities is to make sure that we are dealing with the issue of anti-Semitism. That as I fight hard to deal with Islamophobia that I am going to do the same thing because I…”— Ilhan Omar, cbsnews.comTagged: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, White Supremacy, The Squad