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" Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Think
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Rather
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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 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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Us
" 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. "
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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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" It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens. "
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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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" I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny. "
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Born
Destiny
" 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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" 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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History
Justice
" 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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Culture
Community
Fear
" 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
" Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. "
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Women
Like
Run
" Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Will
Always
Exist
" Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Old
Stake
Too
" 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
" 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
" 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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Started
Brink
School
" We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States. "
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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. "
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You
Think
" 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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Argument
" In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States. "
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Citizenship
Puerto Rico
" The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion. "
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Machine
Exclusion
Politics
" Change takes courage. "
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Courage
Change
Takes
" I don't like having people do little things for me. "
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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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Influence
Power
" We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too. "
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Age
Too
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" I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works. "
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How
Congress
Most
" Not all Democrats are the same. "
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Democrats
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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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