78 Quotes by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

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.

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

It was really my experience at Standing Rock that was pretty pivotal for me because I saw how corporations were literally militarizing themselves against American citizens so that they could kind of maximize their profit margins on fossil fuels.

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

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 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.

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