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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

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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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Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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 to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Experience Myself Pain Understand Work
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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