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.
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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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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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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