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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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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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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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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 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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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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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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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