I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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 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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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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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