When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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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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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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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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 Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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