My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCampaigns 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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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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