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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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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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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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