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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Investment Place Run Thinking
When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Direct Feeling Myself People Time
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

Change Identify People Try
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Game Government Old Politics
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Clarity Class Radical Time Work
I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Direct Myself People Possible Talk
I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Born Family Father Mom Myself Powerful
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
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 Implication Race Talk Yourself
I don’t like having people do little things for me.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Myself People Small
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

Born Build Burn Father Myself
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

Money Myself People Politics Thinking
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

Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Country Democracy Driver Sanitation
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

Afraid Bold Fear Mystery Scare
I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Community Kind Myself People