Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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 should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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 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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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