American - Politician | October 13, 1989 -
I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I don't like having people do little things for me.
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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 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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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.
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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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