“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.com
“I wanted to fight for girls, not be their voice, but to lift up their voices.”— Ayanna Pressley, teenvogue.com
“Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up. We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as ‘bad,’ and not worth our attention or investment.”— Ayanna Pressley, boston.com
“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.com
“I fundamentally believe that the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power, driving and informing our policymaking.”— Ayanna Pressley, boston.com
“When you are shifting culture and ushering in new paradigms and challenging thinking, and people are still stuck in a very specific way of doing things, you can’t be mad at them. But I just think, given what’s happening in Washington, that we have to be disruptive.”— Ayanna Pressley, politico.com
“If folks are going to be about the business of rolling back every civil right protection bit of progress that we’ve made, decades of progress, what I’m going to be focused on is fighting like hell to make it very hard for them — and very painful — every step of the way.”— Ayanna Pressley, politico.com
“For the families and victims of senseless gun violence, change can’t wait. For our brothers and sisters behind the wall, change can’t wait. For our immigrants worried about the knock on the door, change can’t wait. To women whose rights are perpetually under attack, change can’t wait. To the residen…”— Ayanna Pressley, rollingstone.com
“If politics is like dog years, you know, I’m probably 80 right now. Even though I’m only 44.”— Ayanna Pressley, politico.com
“Those closest to the pain should be closest to the power. That is the mantle I will carry with me to Congress.”— Ayanna Pressley, rollingstone.com
“I'm focused on equity and justice and that's what I was sent here to do.”— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.com
“People who feel seen and heard for the first time in their lives, a stakehold [sic] in democracy and a promise for our future. That is the real victory, that is bigger than any electoral victory. And I want to thank you all for being foot soldiers in this movement and for ushering in this change.”— Ayanna Pressley, rollingstone.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“He`s moving this nation backward in a very tangible way and making life more difficult not only for the four Congresswomen, certainly for them, but also for school children that are out there that may be black or they may be Muslim or maybe Latino or Asian-American.”— Julian Castro, msnbc.com