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Change takes courage.
Not all Democrats are the same.
I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.
Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
I don't like having people do little things for me.
I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.
I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.
I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.
We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'
I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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.
It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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.
It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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.
It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods.
We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like... they'll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.