I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’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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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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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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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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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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 way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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