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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe 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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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