I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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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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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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