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" At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process. "

" Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States. "

" Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month. "

" Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. "

" Change takes courage. "

" Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game. "

" 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. "

" Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America. "

" 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. "

" Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States. "

" 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. "

" I can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn't have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con. "

" I don't like having people do little things for me. "

" I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live. "

" I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works. "

" I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially, you know, looks like will be holding political office soon, I think we expect our politicians to be perfect and fully formed and on point on every single issue. "

" 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. "

" If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously. "

" I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair. "

" I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first. "

" 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. "

" I'm an educator. I'm an organizer. "

" I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers. "

" I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community. "

" I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice. "

" In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States. "

" In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere. "

" 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.' "

" I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea. "

" I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives. "

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