Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“Not all Democrats are the same.”

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

“The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, de...”

“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.”

“Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.”

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

“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 primary.”

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

“Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district t...”

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

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

“I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.”

“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.”

“The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.”

“When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direc...”

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

“I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.”