Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

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.

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.

Change takes courage.

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

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.

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

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.

Not all Democrats are the same.

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

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 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.

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.