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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Experience Myself Pain Understand Work
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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Day Myself Wake Up Woman
I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Myself People Small
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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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Direct Feeling Myself People Time
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
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
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Age Diversity Representation
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 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.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Design Ourselves Power Talk Truth
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Politics Queen Way
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.
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Access Born Destiny Myself Privilege
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

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