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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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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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.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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