I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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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.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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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 believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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 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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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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