Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
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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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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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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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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Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn’t until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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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What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez