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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-Cortez

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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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I 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 have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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