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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.

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.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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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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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.
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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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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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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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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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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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