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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZPublic 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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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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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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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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