I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZDemocrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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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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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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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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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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