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-CORTEZI was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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 very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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