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" Not all Democrats are the same. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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 believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

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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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" We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters. "

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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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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. "

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

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" I can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn't have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con. "

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

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

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