I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
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… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially,… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence,… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
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… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
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,… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
