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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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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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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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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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.