I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.
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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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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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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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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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