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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI 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 have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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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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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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