I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.' — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share
