It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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 have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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 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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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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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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