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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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.
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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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

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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.
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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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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.
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