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-CORTEZI wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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