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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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