I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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.
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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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.
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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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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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