Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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