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" I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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 can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn't have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con. "
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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. "
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You
" In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States. "
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" Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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" 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. "
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Health
Care
" We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?' "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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" 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
" I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. "
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Mother
Powerful
" We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States. "
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Racial
Fighting
Justice
" 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
" 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
" I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Person
Poor
Die
" I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Every Day
Day
" 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
" Not all Democrats are the same. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democrats
Same
" 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
" Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Clarity
Moral
Champion
" Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Women
Like
Run
" 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
Kind
American
Me
" 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
" I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Kind
Me
" 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
" I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Media
Voice
Very
" 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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" Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children. "
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Good
My Life
Life
" Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game. "
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Old
Stake
Too
" 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
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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