What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we're going to find progress as a nation. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez More Quotes by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez More Quotes From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez your place born destiny 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 you education food life I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez society health education life 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 nobody win money time I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live die think poor 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 value me education children 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 green time war world I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez never ignore hope people Change takes courage. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes change courage If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez you identity sometimes people It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez woman color identity way We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez political community fear culture I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez you change fear work I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez palm campaign bag cards I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez working-class because understand pain Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez democracy speak power truth Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will always capitalism world 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 i-am compromise power pressure Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez old too game congress I want to speak to people directly as much as possible. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez possible speak want people
