I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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