I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCapitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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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 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 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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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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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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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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