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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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-CORTEZ

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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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