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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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