Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.

It’s time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn’t live here, doesn’t send his kids to our schools, doesn’t drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us.

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.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

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.

We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels.

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.

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we’re going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.

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.

We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.

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.

I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

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.

I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.

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.

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.

Not all Democrats are the same.

People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.

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.

I don’t like having people do little things for me.

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.

It’s disingenuous to… pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.

I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.

The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism – saying it’s a done deal, who cares; there’s no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it’s a huge victory for the movement and the causes we’re trying to advance.

I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.

Change takes courage.

I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.