Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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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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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 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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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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 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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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