100 Quotes by Rashida Tlaib

When we shift our public dollars away from our schools and city services and into company developments, it increases the root causes of poverty: unemployment, underemployment, lack of community resources, and lack of quality public education.

I'm very proud to be of Muslim faith.

Trump's years in office are years we cannot get back. But more dangerous than the loss of time is allowing Trump's precedents to take root.

I'm very proud to be a Detroiter.

Trump's pardon of Arpaio may not get as much attention as Russian influence or Trump's apparent obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation. But to me, as a woman of color, it is a clear abuse of power for the U.S. president to pardon a sheriff who targeted people for arrest because of their ethnicity.

Obviously, I am a member of Congress, and things that I say are elevated on a national level, and I understand that very clearly.

In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was convicted of criminal contempt when he refused. Arpaio, by targeting Latinx people, was violating both the U.S. Constitution and our civil rights.

I am very passionate, and I grew up in an incredibly beautiful urban community - the city of Detroit - born and raised.

The emoluments clause is in the Constitution for a reason: We, as Americans, need to know that the president acts in our best interests, not his own self-interest.