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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I 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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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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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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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