I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCapitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’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-CORTEZI don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCampaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThe 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZDemocrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ