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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
American Politician
Born: Oct 13, 1989
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Related authors: Alexander Hamilton Benjamin Franklin Bernie Sanders John F. Kerry Nancy Pelosi Pete Buttigieg Robert Kennedy Shirley Chisholm
Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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
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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Hope People Will Argument More More People Never Beyond Repair Just Ignore Fatalism
If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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
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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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?' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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
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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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
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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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