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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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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