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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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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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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 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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