I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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Democrats 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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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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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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