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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 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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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The 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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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