I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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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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