I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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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 have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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