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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Clarity Class Radical Time Work
Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Myself Office Run Woman
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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Argument Beyond Hope Ignorance Myself People Repair
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Game Government Old Politics
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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Community Fear Government Politics
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Country Democracy Driver Sanitation
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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Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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Apology Country Fight Justice Movement Race
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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Democracy Live Myself Poor Rich Social Value
Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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Children Education Feeling Goodness Life Myself Public Service
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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Believe Dignity Education Life Modern Myself Society Stability
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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Fight Message People Propose Rival
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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Expensive Light Money People Thinking
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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Clear Community Ourselves Voice Vote
I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Born Family Father Mom Myself Powerful
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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