I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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