Tag: 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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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.
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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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It’s time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn’t live here, doesn’t send his kids to our schools, doesn’t drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism – saying it’s a done deal, who cares; there’s no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it’s a huge victory for the movement and the causes we’re trying to advance.
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