I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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 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.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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 have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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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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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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