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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI 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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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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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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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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 an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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