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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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Fear Ideas Scare Substance Yourself
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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Capital Existence World
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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Born Family Father Mom Myself Powerful
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Game Government Old Politics
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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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