It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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 any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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