I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZDemocrats 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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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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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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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’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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