Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 13, 1989

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez