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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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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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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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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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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 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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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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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 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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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