Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Not all Democrats are the same.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Change takes courage.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have…

— 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

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community…

— 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

Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and…

— 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

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

There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays…

— 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…

— 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

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

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever…

— 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 don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

— 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

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