Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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 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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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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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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