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.’
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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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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 like having people do little things for me.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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