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" 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
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible. "
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" My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year - especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don't work that way. "
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" I'm an educator. I'm an organizer. "
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" Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game. "
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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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" In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States. "
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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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" I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny. "
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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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" 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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" We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States. "
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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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" Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works. "
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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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" I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day. "
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Day
" Change takes courage. "
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" I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community. "
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