We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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