Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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 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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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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