90 Quotes by Ilhan Omar

We have people who will take votes that they can't defend. They'll say they stand for a policy, but when it comes to vote for it, they won't take the vote.

Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.

I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by.

Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other.

I talk all the time about the eight-year-old me and all the eight-year-olds who are living in their camps.

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to live a life that is prosperous, that is just and free. So, every single day, I am shocked with the hypocrisy of this country. That we are the wealthiest nation in the world. But we cannot figure out how to house our homeless people.

I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. And I really was uncomfortable with many members of our community feeling like they had to strip themselves of their identity in order to mitigate the violence and the fears that they were feeling.

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.

I want to go to Washington to make sure we really have an opportunity to expand health care for folks so that is accessible to them.