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It’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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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 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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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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 know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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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.’
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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