Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like... they'll do things like turn out in an…

— 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…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Not all Democrats are the same.

— 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

I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that…

— 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…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all.…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and…

— 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…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— 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…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting.…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I don't like having people do little things for me.

— 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…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are,…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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…

— 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