Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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