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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZDemocrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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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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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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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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 an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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