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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZDemocrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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 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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 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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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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