I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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