I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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