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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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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 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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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