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.’
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI 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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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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 knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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