We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’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 an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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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 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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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