I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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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 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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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