I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZRather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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’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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 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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