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“When I was in my 20s and kind of going through my own coming out process, I feared that I would lose my family. I feared that I would grow old alone. And that was a real part of my struggle.”
“I want to make sure that I am the leader that respects the fact that kids all over the city and hopefully all over the country really understand that they can do anything that they want to do, that they set their minds to do, as long as they've got good, strong support from adults and love to support them.”
“I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.”
“The only thing you have in your life is your integrity.”
“I am an independent reform candidate. I do not represent the past.”
“I support a progressive state income tax.”
“You know, I'm a former federal prosecutor. Before ICE was ICE, I did a lot of cases with Customs Enforcement.”
“I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.”
“When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.”
“We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities.”
“Fundamentally, if people don't feel like their lives are valued and they don't value their lives, they're not going to value their neighbors' lives.”
“When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not.”
“When I came out, it wasn't a big formal conversation like in the movies. I just started living as my true and authentic self and opened up my life to my parents - sharing who I was, and bringing a girlfriend when I came home for a visit. To my great surprise, my parents accepted me for who I was and have supported me since.”
“It's true that not every day a little black girl in a low-income family from a segregated steel town makes the runoff to be the mayor of the third-largest city in America.”
“When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.”
“We have to get to a place in the city where our young officers understand that respectful, constitutional engagement with the community is their most powerful tool.”
“There's significant movement as far to the left in our party as far as you can go, where people are trying to out-Bernie Bernie.”
“It's not enough to be anti-Trump.”
“I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults lie. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults are bullies. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when an adult says something that's not true just to try to score political points.”
“I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.”