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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Politics Queen Way
I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Death Myself Person Thinking
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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Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
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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Born Build Burn Father Myself
I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Experience Myself Pain Understand Work
We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Brother Family People Rejection Sister
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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Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure
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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Money Myself People Politics Thinking
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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Myself Run Work
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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Expensive Light Money People Thinking
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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Fear Ideas Scare Substance Yourself
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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Children Education Feeling Goodness Life Myself Public Service
Not all Democrats are the same.
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Democracy Government Myself
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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Direct Myself People Possible Talk
I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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