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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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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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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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