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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZOur democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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 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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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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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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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’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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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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