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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Capital Existence World
I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Education Myself Organization
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 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
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
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Design Ourselves Power Talk Truth
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.
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Children Education Feeling Goodness Life Myself Public Service
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Game Government Old Politics
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
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.
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Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure
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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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.
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Democracy Live Myself Poor Rich Social Value