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.’
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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