Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
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Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States.
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There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
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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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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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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.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.