Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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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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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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 know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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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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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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