I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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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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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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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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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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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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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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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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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