We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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 knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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