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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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" I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain. "

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" 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. "

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" Change takes courage. "

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" The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy. "

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Energy

" We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States. "

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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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Policy

Pretend

" Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest. "

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Rather

" What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform. "

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Medicare

Reform

" The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion. "

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Exclusion

Politics

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

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Democrats

Drivers

" What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are. "

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See

Class

Color

" 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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Need

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

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Congress

Most

" 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 think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change. "

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Work

" There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year - especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don't work that way. "

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" The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education. "

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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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Pressure

I Am

" The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote. "

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Out

" I want to speak to people directly as much as possible. "

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" I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called. "

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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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" There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it. "

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Talking

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" I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings. "

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Born

Buildings

" Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018. "

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Moral

Champion

" I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. "

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Mother

Powerful

" 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. "

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Closing

Good

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

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Kind

" Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things. "

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