We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCapitalism 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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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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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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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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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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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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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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