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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZPeople 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’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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 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 know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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