I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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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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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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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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