My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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