We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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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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’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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