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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Death Myself Person Thinking
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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Afraid Bold Fear Mystery Scare
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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Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Investment Place Run Thinking
It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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Impact Money Pretend Service Source Writing
I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Direct Myself People Possible Talk
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Age Diversity Representation
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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Community Fear Government Politics
People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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Change Identify People Try
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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Fear Ideas Scare Substance Yourself
I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Hands Social Media Voice
I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Education Myself Organization
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Born Destiny Determination Myself Place
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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Family Home Job Myself Profession Start
I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Born Family Father Mom Myself Powerful
I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Congress Economics Myself Politics Thinking
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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Born Build Burn Father Myself
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Democracy Politics Queen Way
I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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Clear Community Ourselves Voice Vote
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Clarity Class Radical Time Work
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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Money Myself People Politics Thinking
Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Myself Office Run Woman
I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Day Myself Wake Up Woman
Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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Democracy Government Ideas Politics Yourself
Not all Democrats are the same.
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Democracy Government Myself
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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