“Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.”

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

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.

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.

I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.

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.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.

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.

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.

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.

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.

It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.

We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.

The black queen is the most powerful piece in the game. Know your worth, then add tax.

The modern society is a game of crafty egoism.

Be the same person with the same name. Just a different mindset and a new game.

America is going to be back. We’re going to be back in the game.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

It ain’t over till it’s over

You need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.