My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 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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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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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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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 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.
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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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