Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quotes

Born
October 13, 1989, New York City, New York, U.S.

Occupation
Politician.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. She represents New York’s 14th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. She was elected to the House in 2018, becoming the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress.

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

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

It’s disingenuous to… pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
– Alexandria 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.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I don’t like having people do little things for me.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

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

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.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

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

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe’s bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
– Alexandria 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.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

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

Change takes courage.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

If you’re differently-abled, if you’re a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that’s different from the norm, for whatever reason, there’s an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez