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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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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Born Destiny Determination Myself Place
I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Myself People Small
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.
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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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Myself Run Work
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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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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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
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’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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Community Fear Government Politics
Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Myself Office Run Woman
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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