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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZPeople 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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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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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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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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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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