Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

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

Not all Democrats are the same.

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

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.

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

The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn't be afraid to be bold.

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.

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.

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.

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.