48 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

American Politician

Born: Oct 13, 1989

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To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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 direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I 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-Cortez

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The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

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

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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Change takes courage. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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