78 Quotes by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.

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 have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

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

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

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.

I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.