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-CORTEZIt’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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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 see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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