Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Ayanna Pressley - Page 2

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

I don't put too much stock in polls.

One of my priorities is criminal justice reform, and there is certainly bipartisan appetite for that. I think we need to eliminate the cash bail system. We need to eliminate mandatory minimums. We need sentencing reform. I think we need parole reform as well.

If you look at the Affordable Care Act, ultimately that was saved not solely by lawmakers but because of the courage of individuals and families who went to Washington, who organized, who mobilized and said 'We're not turning around.'

For me, whatever vantage point that I'm serving, I'm going to be an advocate and do the work to actualize my values.

I went to a school with the kids of judges and elected officials and architects, civil leaders, and influencers. And I felt very much a minority in every way. But it did expose me to incredible things.

I have been a policymaker proven in tackling some very complex social issues on the municipal level here in Boston.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

When I was ready to buy my first home after years of renting, I immediately zeroed in on Dorchester.

I'm asking people to vote for me because I'm an activist leader and a problem solver.

Raising me as a single parent, my mother held many jobs. Most of them had to do with the betterment and the advancement of our community and society at large. I grew up seeing her active in ministries at our church, with the homeless, as a social worker, with elderly, with youth, as a children's rights organizer with the Urban League of Chicago.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were.

Our schools should be rewarding for all students.

I'm doing what Democrats said we needed to coming out of 2016, after that sobering defeat, which is to build a bench, to usher fresh faces and new voices and new ideas.

Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.

I know, given my own life challenges, that there are many non-academic barriers that get in the way of the scholastic and life success of our children and that complicate teaching.

I don't think people that make history set out to make it.