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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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" 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 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.' "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Money

Politics

Thought

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

See

Citizenship

Puerto Rico

" 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

Believe

America

Live

" 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

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Trying

Care

Saying

" 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

Woman

Ran

Way

" 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

Idea

You

Substance

" 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

Kind

American

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Never

Hope

Argument

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Believe

Plan

People

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Together

People

Democracy

" 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

" Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Lights

Keep

Think

" 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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Old

Stake

Too

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Community

History

Justice

" Change takes courage. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Courage

Change

Takes

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Racial

Fighting

Justice

" 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

Know

You

Think

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Fighting

Message

People

" Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Clarity

Moral

Champion

" 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

Color

People

You

" 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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

People

Kind

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Power

Truth

Speak

" 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

" 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

Education

Problems

Think

" 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

Fierce

Running

Left

" 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

Think

Change

Work