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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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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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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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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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