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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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
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.
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Direct Feeling Myself People Time
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
Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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Expensive Light Money People Thinking
I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Day Myself Wake Up Woman
It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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Acceptance Himself Respect Work
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
We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Brother Family People Rejection Sister
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.
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Access Born Destiny Myself Privilege
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.
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Believe Dignity Education Life Modern Myself Society Stability
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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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Age Diversity Representation
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Design Ourselves Power Talk Truth
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.
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History Implication Race Talk 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure