90 Quotes by Ilhan Omar

I look forward to being a voice of reason in fighting for transparent and accountable budgets.

If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.

There are a few things that we can do. One of them is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we've had it as high as 90 percent.

When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.

One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.

I find hope in knowing that I belong to a state that has a lot of people who are champions of change and progress; that we will rise up and fight for justice and equality; that, ultimately, love will trump hate.

Since 2011, I am happy to say that I have reconciled with Ahmed Hirsi; we have married in our faith tradition and are raising our family together. Like all families, we have had our ups and downs, but we are proud to have come through it together.

We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about.

We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.