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" 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

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" 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

" I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

" 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

" Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" Not all Democrats are the same. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" 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

" 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

" It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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

" Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez