The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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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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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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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 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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For 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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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