Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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 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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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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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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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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