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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWomen like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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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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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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 believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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 in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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