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" 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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process. "

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

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

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second. "

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

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