I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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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.
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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’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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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