We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCapitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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 used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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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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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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