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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Politics Queen Way
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Age Diversity Representation
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

Democracy Live Myself Poor Rich Social Value
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
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
Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Expensive Light Money People Thinking
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 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
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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Myself People Small
We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Death Myself Person Thinking
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Capital Existence World
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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Clear Community Ourselves Voice Vote
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