I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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Public 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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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