I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZDemocrats 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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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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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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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