We had been building and building, knocking on doors and doing everything we could, but a lot of the rhetoric I was met with from day one was,' You know,( Jeff Klein) is so powerful, and you have an uphill battle and I don't know if I want to donate. I received so many no's and so many question marks, asking if it was possible, then June 26th happened.

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They said what we did in the Bronx no one would care about here in Kansas City, they told me I would not be welcome. But you have proven them wrong.

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With allies like Alexandria and James in the Congress, we are going to pass a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program, and please understand that this idea of Medicare for all – this is not a radical idea.

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I think there was a lack of listening on the ground, a lack of going to the grocery store and saying, 'Hey, how are you doing?'.

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Well, I'm female, I'm progressive and the rest, so what's your pr... by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Well, I'm female, I'm progressive and the rest, so what's your problem ? two out of three ain't bad.

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My opponent has literally called ICE' fascist,' yet he refuses to take the stance of abolishing it, which, to me, is morally incomprehensible. Words mean something, and the moment you have identified something as fascist, that with it carries a moral responsibility to abolish it, that's what I'm talking about when we say that norms have been eroded : that we literally have elected officials arguing to basically retain fascist agencies. And that's on the left.

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Democrats are a big tent party, you know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all several hundred members of Congress. But I do think that, once again, it's not about selling an - ism, or an ideology, or a label or a color. This is about selling our values.

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It's part of what I am, it's not all of what I am. by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's part of what I am, it's not all of what I am.

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There are a lot of districts in this country that are like New Yo... by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

There are a lot of districts in this country that are like New York 14.

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The message that we send the world tonight is that it's not OK to... by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The message that we send the world tonight is that it's not OK to put donors before your community.

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When Chardo and I are elected. by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

When Chardo and I are elected.

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Its extra-judicial nature is baked in to the structure of the agency and that is why they are able to get away with black sites at our border, with the separation of children.

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We're having a grass roots, corporate-free political revolution in the United States, in 2018, it's not enough to just turn red districts blue. We need to turn blue districts bluer. If in a district that's 85% Democrat, if this seat hasn't been leading the charge on progressive issues, what's the point?

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I think it's far too early to make those kinds of commitments rig... by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I think it's far too early to make those kinds of commitments right now.

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The only way that you beat a machine is with a movement and the only way that this movement can sustain is if we start in good faith on shared values of a New York citizen. I think that is where Cynthia and I come together, i very much value the work and the impact that she has already made, due to the fact that she can go on‘The View’andtalk about abolishing ICE. What we can do is tag-team this message so that every community can hear it that needs to hear it. And I think that that kind of solidarity across lines is very, very powerful.

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The community is ready for a movement of economic and social justice, that is what we tried to deliver.

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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

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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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When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day.

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I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx.... by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.

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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny... by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

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