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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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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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For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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