I don’t like having people do little things for me.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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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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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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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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 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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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