My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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