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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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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 should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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 think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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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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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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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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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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