Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we’re not just taking – that we’re not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn’t do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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The idea that we’re going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don’t have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they’re giving them an education.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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