Top 35 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

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, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy.

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

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment. And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year – especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don’t work that way.

What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we’re going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.

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

I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

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.

We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Not all Democrats are the same.

There’s this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.

There 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.

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 that actually served its children.

I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.

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

I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called.

I 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.

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.

What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we’re going to find progress as a nation.

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

Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn’t until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States.

I can’t name a single issue with roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.

Change takes courage.

It’s disingenuous to… pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.

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