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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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Lights
Keep
Think
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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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Think
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Work
" We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Justice
" What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we're going to find progress as a nation. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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People
" Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Will
Always
Exist
" I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Family
Mother
Powerful
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Feel
People
Turn
" Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
America
Democrats
Drivers
" I'm an educator. I'm an organizer. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Educator
Organizer
" We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Age
Too
Diversity
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Person
Turn
Changes
" The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Trying
Care
Saying
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
See
Class
Color
" Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Women
Like
Run
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Closing
Good
Us
" Change takes courage. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Courage
Change
Takes
" We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Think
Mistake
Now
" It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Money
Policy
Pretend
" I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Kind
Me
" It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Some
Work
Done
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Time
Nobody
Money
" To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Value
Education
Children
" What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
College
Medicare
Reform
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Community
History
Justice
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Believe
America
Live
" We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Care
Enough
People
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Fact
Mean
Need
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
World
War
Energy
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
History
Talking
Class
" When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Day
Power
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Way
Influence
Power