Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 13, 1989

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Change takes courage.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez