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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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 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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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.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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