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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

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

Family Home Job Myself Profession Start
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Politics Queen Way
I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Hands Social Media Voice
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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Democracy Live Myself Poor Rich Social Value
I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
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.
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Fear Ideas Scare Substance Yourself
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Capital Existence World
Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Government Ideas Politics Yourself
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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Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure
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.’
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Money Myself People Politics Thinking
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Clarity Class Radical Time Work
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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Change Identify People Try
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.
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Afraid Bold Fear Mystery Scare
I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Education Myself Organization
It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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Impact Money Pretend Service Source Writing
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.
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Change Creation Motivational Reach Time Vote