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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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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 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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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