I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCongress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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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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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 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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