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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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 any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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