American - Politician | October 13, 1989 -
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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.
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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.
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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.
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I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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.
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I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
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In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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.
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