I don’t like having people do little things for me.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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