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I don’t like having people do little things for me.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Brother Family People Rejection Sister
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
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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Change Creation Motivational Reach Time 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
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
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 way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Politics Queen Way
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
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
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 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
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
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
I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Death Myself Person Thinking
Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Children Education Feeling Goodness Life Myself Public Service