I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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