Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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 is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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 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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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