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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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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’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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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 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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