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-CORTEZWe have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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It’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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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 most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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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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