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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Congress Economics Myself Politics Thinking
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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Fear Ideas Scare Substance Yourself
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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Born Build Burn Father Myself
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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Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
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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Fight Message People Propose Rival
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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Democracy Government Ideas Politics Yourself
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Capital Existence World
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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Myself Run Work
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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Impact Money Pretend Service Source Writing
I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Born Family Father Mom Myself Powerful
Not all Democrats are the same.
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Democracy Government Myself
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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Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Myself People Small
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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Argument Beyond Hope Ignorance Myself People Repair
Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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