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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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.’
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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 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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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 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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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