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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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" Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote. "

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" I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.' "

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" 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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" Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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

" 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. "

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" 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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" It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters. "

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" I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny. "

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" What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are. "

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

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

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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. "

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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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" 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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" Change takes courage. "

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" I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else. "

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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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" 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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" 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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