I think – I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn’t mean that we threaten people’s lives. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read Quote
