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I 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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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Democracy Government Ideas Politics Yourself
Not all Democrats are the same.
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Democracy Government Myself
I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Born Family Father Mom Myself Powerful
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Democracy Politics Queen Way
It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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Impact Money Pretend Service Source Writing
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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Democracy Live Myself Poor Rich Social Value
When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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Direct Feeling Myself People Time
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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Fight Message People Propose Rival
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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Acceptance Himself Respect Work
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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Children Education Feeling Goodness Life Myself Public Service
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Age Diversity Representation
I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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Argument Beyond Hope Ignorance Myself People Repair
I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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Myself Run Work
I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Experience Myself Pain Understand Work
I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
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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Fear Ideas Scare Substance Yourself

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