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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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 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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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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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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