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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.’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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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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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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