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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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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" Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. "

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

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

" 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

" 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

" Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" I want to speak to people directly as much as possible. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" Not all Democrats are the same. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" Change takes courage. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?' "

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

" 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

" I don't like having people do little things for me. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez