Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials as AOC, is an American politician serving as the U.S. Profoundly inspirational Ocasio Cortez quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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I think thats the direction that we absolutely need to go in, i think one of the things that were hearing right here in our, that were really discovering in our hearings is that we — the real issue with our health care system is that were trying to have it both ways. Were trying to have half a free market system, half a more public system. And it is in the half-commitments that our systems are breaking down. – Ocasio Cortez
An agency like ICE, which repeatedly and systematically violates human rights, does not deserve a dime. – Ocasio Cortez
What I would like to see in a presidential candidate is one that has a coherent world view and logic from which all these policy proposals are coming forward. I think Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has that. I also think Sen. Warren has that. – Ocasio Cortez
Many know I take no pleasure in discussions of impeachment. I didn’t campaign on it, & rarely discuss it unprompted, but the report squarely puts this on our doorstep. – Ocasio Cortez
I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers. – Ocasio Cortez
My opponent has literally called ICE’ fascist,’ yet he refuses to take the stance of abolishing it, which, to me, is morally incomprehensible. Words mean something, and the moment you have identified something as fascist, that with it carries a moral responsibility to abolish it, that’s what I’m talking about when we say that norms have been eroded : that we literally have elected officials arguing to basically retain fascist agencies. And that’s on the left. – Ocasio Cortez
That is the goal. Its ambitious. – Ocasio Cortez
This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil-rights movement of our generation. – Ocasio Cortez
Hannity added. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has recently been clashing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and has suggested that Nancy Pelosi has been singling out Nancy Pelosi and three fellow freshman congresswomen because of race. But the persistent singling out… It got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful. … The explicit singling out of newly elected women of color. – Ocasio Cortez
We really need to make sure that we are advocating and pushing for immediate cash infusions, weare asking for a complete halt to student loan payments, a halt on evictions nationwide. And we are also calling for mortgage relief. – Ocasio Cortez
And this doesn’t seem to be the only time The President has benefited at the expense of the public. – Ocasio Cortez
People tell you things. And they tell you what they believe. And they tell you what they want for themselves, for you, they tell you their stories. – Ocasio Cortez
In my opinion, if women and gender-expanding people want to run for office we can’t knock on anybody’s doors, we have to build our own house. – Ocasio Cortez
I think it’s far too early to make those kinds of commitments right now. – Ocasio Cortez
Give people the respect of your honest opinion, and always meet them where they’re at. – Ocasio Cortez
We talk about existential threats, the last time we had a really major existential threat to this country was around World War II, and so we’ve been here before and we have a blueprint of doing this before. – Ocasio Cortez
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. – Ocasio Cortez
I didn’t have health care. I wasn’t being paid a living wage, and I didn’t think that I deserved any of those things. – Ocasio Cortez
I’m an educator. I’m an organizer. – Ocasio Cortez
Today is the day that we choose to assert ourselves as a global leader in transitioning to percent renewable energy and charting that path. – Ocasio Cortez
Combined, that means over , children have entered our custody since October st. – Ocasio Cortez
We’re having a grass roots, corporate-free political revolution in the United States, in , it’s not enough to just turn red districts blue. We need to turn blue districts bluer. If in a district that’s % Democrat, if this seat hasn’t been leading the charge on progressive issues, what’s the point? – Ocasio Cortez
You don’t have to be perfect, but you do have to be % committed. – Ocasio Cortez
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 – Ocasio Cortez
Democrats are a big tent party, you know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all several hundred members of Congress. But I do think that, once again, it’s not about selling an – ism, or an ideology, or a label or a color. This is about selling our values. – Ocasio Cortez
I want to talk about why Bernie. Because Bernie has not committed to what was right when it was popular, it is hard to stand up andfight for someone you dont know when its not the popular thing to do and he has done it his whole damm life. – Ocasio Cortez
I never saw myself going into politics, but now that I sit here in this room with you all, I just feel like we can only accomplish great things together. – Ocasio Cortez
Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don’t turn this ship around and so it’s basically like, there’s a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. – Ocasio Cortez
They said what we did in the Bronx no one would care about here in Kansas City, they told me I would not be welcome. But you have proven them wrong. – Ocasio Cortez
The message that we send the world tonight is that it’s not OK to put donors before your community. – Ocasio Cortez
It’s part of what I am, it’s not all of what I am. – Ocasio Cortez
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. – Ocasio Cortez
The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples lives, the only way we change is with a massive surge of new voters at the polls. UK, Vote! – Ocasio Cortez
Any job that pays $. per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude. – Ocasio Cortez
I think there was a lack of listening on the ground, a lack of going to the grocery store and saying, ‘Hey, how are you doing?’. – Ocasio Cortez
Can everyday people come together and effectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the worlds biggest corporations ? Yes, they can. – Ocasio Cortez
Its extra-judicial nature is baked in to the structure of the agency and that is why they are able to get away with black sites at our border, with the separation of children. – Ocasio Cortez
There are a lot of districts in this country that are like New York . – Ocasio Cortez
Hope is not something that you have. Hope is something that you create, with your actions. Hope is contagious. Other people start acting in a way that has more hope. – Ocasio Cortez
It is a step forward, but it is completely insufficient. – Ocasio Cortez
I think the president was unprepared. I don’t think he did his homework. … There was no plan, is this a campaign stop or a State of the Union? – Ocasio Cortez
If the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to have a ‘middle of the road approach’ to save our lives, that is too much for me. – Ocasio Cortez
We need to start communicating is that this is a global struggle, and it’s not about what is Sweden doing, and what is the US doing – it’s about what are all of us doing, as one movement. – Ocasio Cortez
The women and children on the border that are trying to seek refuge and seek opportunity in the United States of America with nothing but the shirt on their backs are acting more American than any person who seeks to keep them out ever will be. – Ocasio Cortez
Anything is possible, today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world. – Ocasio Cortez
Weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy. – Ocasio Cortez
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. – Ocasio Cortez
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in . – Ocasio Cortez
I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live. – Ocasio Cortez
With allies like Alexandria and James in the Congress, we are going to pass a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program, and please understand that this idea of Medicare for all – this is not a radical idea. – Ocasio Cortez
Amazon is a billion-dollar company. The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here [in New York]. – Ocasio Cortez
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. – Ocasio Cortez
There’s so many people that know that we’re going into the lion’s den, even within the party. – Ocasio Cortez
Its not even like a raise. – Ocasio Cortez
That was my first time presiding. And it’s exciting. It’s certainly a view. I wish we could, I wish we were allowed to take photos. – Ocasio Cortez
Double standards are Paul Ryan being elected at and immediately being given the benefit of his ill-considered policies considered genius ; and me winning a primary at to immediately be treated with suspicion scrutinized, down to my clothing, of being a fraud. – Ocasio Cortez
We are no longer at the point of preventing climate disaster from happening entirely – we are now at the point of minimising the damage. And as these floods and storms are here, I think more and more people are going to be willing to stand up for themselves. – Ocasio Cortez
I think overall it’s to have a more open-ended conversation and see what we can do to come together on strategy. Certainly immigration is a part of that conversation. – Ocasio Cortez
I’ll be very honest, I got heat from my own party for that — for making that point. But if we really want to pass a humanitarian bill then let’s make a humanitarian bill and if it’s not a humanitarian bill then don’t call it a humanitarian bill. It’s a border militarization bill. – Ocasio Cortez
I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need a’ middle of the road’ approach to save our lives. – Ocasio Cortez
I’ve always felt that elections should be joyous, celebratory events. – Ocasio Cortez
It may be politically convenient, and it may make you look good in the short term for saying, Oh were not voting for pay increases, but we should be fighting for pay increases for every American worker, we should be fighting for a $ minimum wage pegged to inflation so that everybody in the United States with a salary with a wage gets a cost of living increase.Members of Congress, retail workers, everybody should get cost of living increases to accommodate for the changes in our economy. And then when we dont do that, it only increases the pressure on members to exploit loopholes like insider-trading loopholes, to make it on the back end. – Ocasio Cortez
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. – Ocasio Cortez
On the th or th of the month, you will let that person touch you because of economic desperation. – Ocasio Cortez
We had been building and building, knocking on doors and doing everything we could, but a lot of the rhetoric I was met with from day one was,’ You know,( Jeff Klein) is so powerful, and you have an uphill battle and I don’t know if I want to donate. I received so many no’s and so many question marks, asking if it was possible, then June th happened. – Ocasio Cortez
For what purpose does the gentleman from Ohio – um, from Illinois, excuse me, seek recognition? that was my first time presiding. And it’s exciting. It’s certainly a view. I wish we could, I wish we were allowed to take photos. – Ocasio Cortez
I would like to see in a presidential candidate is one that has a coherent worldview and logic from which all these policy proposals are coming forward, i think Sen. Sanders has that. I also think Sen. Warren has that. I also want to see us centering( on) working people in the United States to stem income inequality( and) tackle climate change. – Ocasio Cortez
With the Ocasio campaign beginning to ramp up, I’ve asked Corbin to transition to the campaign full-time and he has agreed to do so, i’m looking forward to growing the movement with him in Queens and the Bronx and across the country. – Ocasio Cortez
The community is ready for a movement of economic and social justice, that is what we tried to deliver. – Ocasio Cortez
A president can’t wave a magic wand and pass any legislation they want, the worst-case scenario ? We compromise deeply and we end up getting a public option. – Ocasio Cortez
Who can afford a plane ticket on such short notice, we need to make sure that low-income students can get reimbursed for that enormous disruption and economic setback. – Ocasio Cortez
I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day. – Ocasio Cortez
We are talking about the president using the full power of the United States government in order to pursue and manufacture a politically-motivated investigation against a political opponent, i think its an allegation that, frankly, has united more members of the party on impeachment than any other, and so for that, I think its an understandable decision that we make. – Ocasio Cortez
Im looking forward to seeing where and how far theyd be willing to move on that, but Im encouraged, i think theres some wiggle room here.Its super-bizarre,really weird. Never thought in my life that one of my first pushes would be alongside Ted Cruz. – Ocasio Cortez
The Plan for a Green New Deal shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation. – Ocasio Cortez
The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly. Their moral — their lack of moral grounding on so many issues, and, not just that, but the reason they are so upset, and they act like that girl in The Exorcist thats like vomiting pea soup, thats like them and negativity. – Ocasio Cortez
This has to also be about saying, Hey, time to turnthe page and write the new chapter, and what does that look like? – Ocasio Cortez
When Chardo and I are elected. – Ocasio Cortez
The only way that you beat a machine is with a movement and the only way that this movement can sustain is if we start in good faith on shared values of a New York citizen. I think that is where Cynthia and I come together, i very much value the work and the impact that she has already made, due to the fact that she can go on‘The View’andtalk about abolishing ICE. What we can do is tag-team this message so that every community can hear it that needs to hear it. And I think that that kind of solidarity across lines is very, very powerful. – Ocasio Cortez
It’s about comparing his financial statements with his tax reports. What Cohen named particularly were the Trump Organization taxes. – Ocasio Cortez
For years before Auschwitz, we had concentration camps — things that were called Concentration Camps — what we’re doing now fits very cleanly inside that tradition. – Ocasio Cortez
It wasn’t until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being that deserves health care, housing, education and a living wage. – Ocasio Cortez
Ilhan Omar kind of presided over the situation, Ilhan Omar relished it, Ilhan Omar took it in. – Ocasio Cortez
But me ? I’m going up that hill and I hope you are, too. – Ocasio Cortez
We have built power. We have organized. What we have built is permanent. No. Matter. What. – Ocasio Cortez
Well, I’m female, I’m progressive and the rest, so what’s your problem ? two out of three ain’t bad. – Ocasio Cortez
Our goal is to treat Climate Change like the serious, existential threat it is by drafting an ambitious solution on the scale necessary — aka a Green New Deal — to get it done. A weak [select] committee misses the point & endangers people. – Ocasio Cortez
There’s no debate as to whether we should continue producing fossil fuels. There’s no debate, we should not. Every single scientific consensus points to that. – Ocasio Cortez
You know this is part of a pattern that the right and the far-right and, frankly, the President is consistent with, he doesn’t have another woman, Hillary Clinton or whoever else, to vilify anymore so they need to find another woman to kind of prop up and become a lightning rod. – Ocasio Cortez
The Senate bill is not a humanitarian bill by any stretch of the imagination. – Ocasio Cortez
Unemployment is low because people are working , , hours a week and can barely feed their kids. – Ocasio Cortez
Change takes courage. – Ocasio Cortez
This nation is never beyond remedy, it is never beyond hope, it is never too broken to fix. We will be here, and we are going to rock the world for the next two years. – Ocasio Cortez
The worst-case scenario? We compromise deeply, and we end up getting a public option. Is that a nightmare? I dont think so. – Ocasio Cortez
We don’t have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It’s life or death. – Ocasio Cortez
The only reason that I had any hope in launching a long-shot campaign for Congress is because Bernie Sanders proved that you can run a grassroots campaign and win in an America where we almost thought it was impossible. – Ocasio Cortez
