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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCampaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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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 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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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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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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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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 a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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