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.’
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCongress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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