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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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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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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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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 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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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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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