Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe 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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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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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 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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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