Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZOur democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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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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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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 think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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 like having people do little things for me.
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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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.
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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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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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’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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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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