36 Quotes by Kyrsten Sinema

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

I was not a Democrat; I was an independent. Here's the thing: You can't win that way. But I didn't know that.

I'm just really proud of the Democratic caucus. I look around in our meetings, and I think we really look like America.

The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn't find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families.

Unfortunately, the genuine relationships and friendships that some of us have developed across the aisle in recent years does not translate into a willingness to seek compromise, consensus, or middle ground on the major challenges facing our state. The extreme ideology of the self-styled Tea Party legislators in Arizona absolutely rules the day.

While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.

I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.