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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure
I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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