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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

People

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Good

My Life

Life

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Closing

Good

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Racial

Fighting

Justice

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Time

Vote

Out

" What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

College

Medicare

Reform

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

Child

Life

Food

" 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

History

Talking

Class

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Old

Stake

Too

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Think

Invest

Rather

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Machine

Exclusion

Politics

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Think

Mistake

Now

" 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

" 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

" I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Who

Born

Buildings

" 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

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

See

Class

Color

" Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

America

Democrats

Drivers

" 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

Time

Nobody

Money

" Change takes courage. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Courage

Change

Takes

" 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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Possible

Much

Want