I'll do everything I can to ensure the Clean Water Act is enforced here in Michigan, and I'll work to ensure everyone in Michigan has access to safe, affordable water, regardless of where they live.

From capitalizing housing trust funds, which allow low-income people to obtain grants to fix up and stay in their homes, to creating job training programs in schools, these are the kinds of economic stimuli that will give families the opportunity to thrive.

My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human being, as an American, that is saying to the world that we exist.

Throughout my career in public service, the residents I have had the privilege of fighting for have embraced who I am, especially my Palestinian roots. This is what I want to bring to the United States Congress: an unapologetic display of the fabric of the people in this country.

I'm never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.

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.

We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings.

When I think of immigration, I want to think of families. I want to think of unity. I want to think of a safe place, you know, free of persecution, a place where we can welcome a child that is hungry.

I'm tired of just introducing legislation that's just not going to change our lives. It's going beyond that.

I take a very different approach to public service. I'm a person that always takes it out in the streets and in the courts... the tool box that is attached to me is very diverse.

In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.

Allowing workers' compensation for all injured workers is a better system than allowing people to be part of a black market of undocumented workers.

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.

We should be encouraging moms to breastfeed their infants, not discouraging it by unfairly judging and discriminating against nursing mothers.

I think social media brings another dynamic to running for office so publicly.

I'm very proud to be a Detroiter.

I'm very proud to be of Muslim faith.

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.

I remember the different things that were happening to my family as we were getting situated and buying our first home in southwest Detroit, watching my mother learn how to drive for the first time.

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

I was my mother's translator until I was probably 12 years old, and I remember how people looked at her.