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.
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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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 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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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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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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’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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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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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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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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