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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZPublic 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-CORTEZI 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCongress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t like having people do little things for me.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZDemocrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZNot all Democrats are the same.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’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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