We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZOur democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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