Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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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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