“Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.”

Not all Democrats are the same.

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.

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.

Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.

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.

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.’

I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.

I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.

Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.

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

I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.

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.

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

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.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering – only expensive – blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.