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-CORTEZI don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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