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" It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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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" Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. "
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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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Politics
Thought
" 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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Out
" 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
Day
Power
" The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Problems
Think
" 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
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Talking
Class
" 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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Turn
" Change takes courage. "
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Change
Takes
" The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
World
War
Energy
" 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
Fact
Mean
Need
" Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Think
Invest
Rather
" 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
Way
Influence
Power
" 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
Never
Growth
Investment
" 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
Color
You
Saying
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Culture
Community
Fear
" I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Your
Born
Destiny
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Like
Access
Me
" I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Person
Poor
Die
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Value
Education
Children
" It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Some
Work
Done
" I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Family
Mother
Powerful
" 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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Fierce
Running
Left
" Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. "
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Women
Like
Run
" 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
Person
Turn
Changes
" 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. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Republicans
Afraid
Bold
" Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Will
Always
Exist
" Not all Democrats are the same. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democrats
Same
" 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
Power
Pressure
I Am