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Ruben Gallego Quotes

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“I will gladly work with the President when his ideas aren't stupid and detrimental to the United States. Unfortunately, this is what this plan is. It was not planned out.”
— Ruben Gallego, Arizona Democrat: I'll work with Trump 'when his ideas aren't stupid'
Tagged: Donald Trump, disrespect, Stupid
“We have to give some certainty to these young men and women—some of these young women that have families now—about what is their status in this country. So I think everyone's, you know, kind of dancing around the main topic. But at the end of the day, we're just going to have to come to the realization, this has to get done. The problem we have right now is that we have a president that's very difficult to deal with because he is all over the place in terms of negotiations.”
— Ruben Gallego, Rep. Ruben Gallego On Immigration Debate
Tagged: Donald Trump, Certainty, families, Immigration
“I do feel frustrated because I think that we had the best opportunity to pass this when we had it all together at once. And, you know, there's a lot of, you know, talk about taking care of our military. And I think people forget that there is 10,000 DREAMers that are actually in—well, 1,000 that are in the military now and 10,000 that are veterans. And when we're talking about taking care of our military, we seem to forget that they're—we're about to deport close to 10,000 veterans. And I think there's a lot of other areas that we could probably find some very common ground.”
— Ruben Gallego, Rep. Ruben Gallego On Immigration Debate
Tagged: Donald Trump, Immigration, Frustration, DREAM Act, Dreamers
“We've had a lot of conversations about what we're willing to do. And border security has always been a part of that. You know, what we're not going to do is fund a stupid wall for the sake of saying that we funded a wall, for the sake of, you know, fulfilling the president's ego and, specifically, his campaign promise, which, of course, was that Mexico was going to pay for it. And now we're going to make our American citizens pay for it.”
— Ruben Gallego, Rep. Ruben Gallego On Immigration Debate
Tagged: Donald Trump, Immigration, border security, wall
“On the day of the swearing-in, it really hit me, the significance of the whole thing. It hadn't sunk in until I was standing there on the floor with my hand in the air and reciting that oath. It's one of the highlights of my life. I carried a scarf with me that my sister had made for me. She started doing some research on our family history and she found out that our great-grandfather three times removed was able to sign an 'X' to vote during Reconstruction. He couldn't write. He couldn't sign his name. But he wanted to vote. She took that document and had it printed on a scarf. I had it with me on the day that I was sworn in because it's a reminder of how far we've come, how much we need to fight for. It's my ancestors who got me here. I carried it around that entire day and I've been carrying it around with me ever since.”
— Ruben Gallego, Rep. Ruben Gallego On Immigration Debate
Tagged: swearing-in, reconstruction, Illiteracy, voting
“I have legislative policies that I'm interested in—equal pay for equal work, child care, paid leave, college affordability, education, agriculture. But outside of that, I feel it's critical that people be passionate and feel invested in politics. I want to see women run for office at all levels. And if you can't run, then get involved somehow. I feel we need to make a statement and I need to make a statement, as a representative, that we can continue the promise of President Obama, that there is still hope. We need to say to everyone around the world as we did at the Women's March, 'See me. Hear me. I'm here. I have a voice.'”
— Ruben Gallego, Rep. Ruben Gallego On Immigration Debate
Tagged: Legislation, equal work, Child Care, paid leave, Education, Women's March
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