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.’
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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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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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 have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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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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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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