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" I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Fierce
Running
Left
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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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" 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. "
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" Not all Democrats are the same. "
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" Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018. "
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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 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 have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too. "
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" I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice. "
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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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" Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. "
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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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You
" 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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Mistake
Now
" I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny. "
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Born
Destiny
" 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
" 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
Believe
Plan
People
" 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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" 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. "
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Immigration
Ice
Before
" 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
" Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month. "
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Lights
Keep
Think
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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Republicans
Afraid
Bold
" 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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Saying
" 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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Feel
People
Turn
" 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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Believe
America
Live
" I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. "
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Family
Mother
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" 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. "
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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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" I want to speak to people directly as much as possible. "
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