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.
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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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.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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