Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody’s ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody’s ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists’ money. No one’s ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one’s ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Not all Democrats are the same.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez