Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
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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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The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy.
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What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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.
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What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we're going to find progress as a nation.
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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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I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
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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.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
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To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'
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I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.
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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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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.
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I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year - especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don't work that way.