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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

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

Capital Existence World
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
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

Believe Dignity Education Life Modern Myself Society Stability
I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Hands Social Media Voice
I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Experience Myself Pain Understand 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Change Creation Motivational Reach Time Vote
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
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
It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

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

Clarity Class Radical Time Work
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Age Diversity Representation
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Family Home Job Myself Profession Start
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’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Myself Run Work
I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Community Kind Myself People