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" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

" 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

" It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" Not all Democrats are the same. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez