Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.
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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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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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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.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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.
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I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.
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I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called.
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At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn't be afraid to be bold.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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.