I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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