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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

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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.

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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

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I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

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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?'

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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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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.

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We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: October 13th, 1989

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