We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZOur democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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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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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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