Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
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In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.
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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.
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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
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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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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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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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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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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 started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
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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.
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I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially, you know, looks like will be holding political office soon, I think we expect our politicians to be perfect and fully formed and on point on every single issue.
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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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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year - especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don't work that way.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.