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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.
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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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