I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI 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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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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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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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