I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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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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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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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