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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZFor 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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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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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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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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