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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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 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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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