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" I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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" 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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

" 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 are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

" My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing. "

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

" 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 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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" Not all Democrats are the same. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

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