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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Community Fear Government Politics
I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Hands Social Media Voice
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Investment Place Run Thinking
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Born Destiny Determination Myself Place
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Democracy Politics Queen Way
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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Clear Community Ourselves Voice Vote
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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Democracy Government Ideas Politics Yourself
I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Death Myself Person Thinking
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Democracy Design Ourselves Power Talk Truth
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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Access Born Destiny Myself Privilege
I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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Born Build Burn Father Myself
I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Congress Economics Myself Politics Thinking
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Clarity Class Radical Time Work
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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Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
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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Acceptance Himself Respect Work
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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Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
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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Afraid Bold Fear Mystery Scare
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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Believe Dignity Education Life Modern Myself Society Stability
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Age Diversity Representation
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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Argument Beyond Hope Ignorance Myself People Repair
We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Brother Family People Rejection Sister
I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Direct Myself People Possible Talk
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Country Democracy Driver Sanitation
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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Direct Feeling Myself People Time
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Capital Existence World
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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Family Home Job Myself Profession Start
I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People

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