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-CORTEZDemocrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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 used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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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 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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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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