Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, often referred to as AOC, is an American politician and activist. She became the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress when she was elected to represent New York's 14th congressional district in 2018. Ocasio-Cortez is known for her progressive policies, advocacy for social and economic justice, and use of social media to engage with her constituents and promote her platform. Her political career and outspoken nature have made her a prominent figure in American politics.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.... -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

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.

Not all Democrats are the same.... -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Not all Democrats are the same.

We have to have a diversity of age represented in ... -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.

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 wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mo... -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

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

I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

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.

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has wo... -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like... they'll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

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.

When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day.

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.

In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.

I can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn't have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.

I don't think any person in America should die bec... -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

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.

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.

Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.

Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.

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.

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.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

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.

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.

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

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