I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThere 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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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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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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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 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 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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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