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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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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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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 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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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 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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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