I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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 stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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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 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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