Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZOur democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’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-CORTEZWe have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCongress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZThere is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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-CORTEZThe way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZDemocrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWorking-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZPeople 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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ