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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

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

Fight Message People Propose Rival
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

Argument Beyond Hope Ignorance Myself People Repair
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Believe Dignity Education Life Modern Myself Society Stability
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

Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
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

Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Game Government Old Politics
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 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’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Education Myself Organization
I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Myself Run Work
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

Access Born Destiny Myself Privilege
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
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
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
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

Community Fear Government Politics