We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZPublic schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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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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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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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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 believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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