Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’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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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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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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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 an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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.
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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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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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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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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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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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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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