I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 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 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 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 very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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