Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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 know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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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 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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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