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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

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

Capital Existence World
I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Death Myself Person Thinking
I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Hands Social Media Voice
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Investment Place Run Thinking
It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Fear Ideas Scare Substance Yourself
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 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 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Clear Community Ourselves Voice Vote
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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Experience Myself Pain Understand Work
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
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
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 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
I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Myself People Small