I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWorking-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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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.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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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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