We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZRather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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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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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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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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