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“I actually think I have a lot of common ground with many libertarian viewpoints… True libertarians, which many happen to be in the Republican Party, true libertarian viewpoints are pro-immigration.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Billy Binion, “ “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'I Have a Lot of Common Ground With Many Libertarian Viewpoints'” https://reason.com/2019/08/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-i-have-a-lot-of-common-ground-with-many-libertarian-viewpoints/, Reason magazine, (Aug. 8, 2019) from Instagram live stream (Aug. 2, 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), August 2019

“What’s haunting is that the women I met with today told me in no uncertain terms that they would experience retribution for telling us what they shared.They all began sobbing - out of fear of being punished, out of sickness, out of desperation, lack of sleep, trauma, despair.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1145801283191955464 (1 July 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), July 2019

“Members of Congress had to surrender their phones before today’s CBP trip.But @JoaquinCastrotx was able to get a device in. This photo is of the women we spoke to. We asked their permission to photograph - they said yes, please share what’s happening.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1145840530624077825 (1 July 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), July 2019

“I can’t understate how disturbing it was that CBP officers were openly disrespectful of the Congressional tour. If officers felt comfortable violating agreements in front of their *own* management & superiors, that tells us the agency has lost all control of their own officers. Congresswoman Madeleine Dean: We were met with hostility from the guards, but this is nothing compared to their treatment of the people being held. The detainees are constantly abused and verbally harassed with no cause. Deprived physically and dehumanized mentally - everyday.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1146052528997588992 (2 July 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), July 2019

“No child should ever be separated from their parent. No child should ever taken from their family. No woman should ever be locked up in a pen when they have done no harm to another human being.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC quoted by The Hill, Twitter, https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1146082350725337089 (2 July 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), July 2019

“We withdrew U. S. aid to those areas that was intended to stabilize those areas… It deepened and exacerbated all of the crises that are already happening, causing a flood of people to try to escape these horrifying conditions. So we are contributing to the surge in the first place. We’re engineering it, so that’s coming to our border.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Quoted in Ocasio-Cortez says U.S. is headed to 'fascism' under Trump, The Hill, Justin Wise https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451601-ocasio-cortez-says-us-is-headed-to-fascism-under-trump (3 July 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), July 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes about people

“If you’re mad that I think people SHOULD KNOW when Dems vote to expand ICE powers, then be mad. ICE is a dangerous agency with 0 accountability, widespread reporting of rape, abuse of power, + children dying in DHS custody. Having a D next to your name doesn’t make that right.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (2 March 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), March 2019

“What I DID say was that I had to go back to my district & share the MTR vote to explain why a pro-ICE amendment was slipped into a gun safety law. Maybe they’re mad bc I don’t believe pro-ICE expansion votes should be cast in the dark, and people deserve to know what happened.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (2 March 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), March 2019

“I guess WSJ Editorial Page takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (28 February 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), February 2019

“A lot of people commenting don’t know how Congressional salaries work. Each member is given a set amount that they disburse. GOP has refused to increase budgets in years to give hard-working staff a raise, which means people helping to run the country are getting paid $30k/year.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (23 February 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), February 2019

“It’s pretty sad that people think low Congressional staff pay is a good thing. Low pay a big reason why money in politics is a problem - you can make a lot more money becoming a lobbyist & setting up a relationship w/ one, since the actual job doesn’t pay enough.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter Quotes (2019), February 2019

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“World is going to end in 12 years” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHk8nn0nw18&t=9s (21 January 2019) interview by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Twitter Quotes (2019), January 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes about thinking

“Are we headed to fascism? Yes. I don’t think there’s a question… If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president, the answer is yes.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter Quotes (2019), July 2019

“I was upset that 26 Dems forced the other 200+ to vote for a pro-ICE provision at the last min without warning… We can have ideological differences and that’s fine. But these tactics allow a small group to force the other 200+ members into actions that the majority disagree with. I don’t think that’s right, and said as much in a closed door meeting.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (2 March 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), March 2019

“When we talk about the concern of the environment as an elitist concern, one year ago I was waitressing in a taco shop in Downtown Manhattan. I just got health insurance for the first time a month ago. This is not an elitist issue; this is a quality-of-life issue. You want to tell people that their concern and their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist? Tell that to the kids in the South Bronx, which are suffering from the highest rates of childhood asthma in the country. Tell that to the families in Flint, whose kids have—their blood is ascending in lead levels. Their brains are damaged for the rest of their lives. Call them elitist… People are dying. This should not be a partisan issue. This is about our constituents and all of our lives. Iowa, Nebraska, broad swaths of the Midwest are drowning right now, underwater. Farms, towns that will never be recovered and never come back. And we’re here, and people are more concerned about helping oil companies than helping their own families? I don’t think so…This is about American lives. And it should not be partisan. Science should not be partisan. We are facing a national crisis. And if… if we tell the American public that we are more willing to invest and bail out big banks than we are willing to invest in our farmers and our urban families, then I don’t know what we’re here doing…”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“Tell That to the Families in Flint”: AOC Demolishes GOP Claim That Green New Deal Is “Elitist”, DemocracyNow, https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/28/tell_that_to_the_families_in<BR> Video only: This is not an elitist issue: AOC on... inaction on climate change –video, Guardian News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5M8vvEhCFI (26 March 2019)
Quotes (2019)

“I do not think that for the future of humanity, and for our country to continue to prosper, that we cannot have another presidential cycle where climate change is not being asked about at almost every debate, and that includes the role of fossil fuel, fossil fuel industries, and that includes the role of a broad spectrum of issues.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her First Weeks In Washington, The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2019/01/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-podcast/ (28 January 2019)
Quotes (2019)

“I think it’s great that we have multiple female presidential candidates, so there’s not the woman running… I’m very excited about there being multiple women across — that can represent different parts of the political spectrum on the left, so that’s something that I’m thankful for… what we’re trying to do is is frame the debate and the conversation… that we’re going to be having in the next two years…”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her First Weeks In Washington, The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2019/01/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-podcast/ (28 January 2019)
Quotes (2019)

“No lawmaker should be cashing in on their public service and selling their contacts and expertise to the highest bidder... don't think it should be legal at ALL to become a corporate lobbyist if you've served in Congress. Keeping it real, the elephant in the room with passing a lobbying ban on members requires a nearly-impossible discussion about congressional pay.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC Calls for Ban on Revolving Door as Study Shows Two-Thirds of Recently Departed Lawmakers Now K Street Lobbyists https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/30/aoc-calls-ban-revolving-door-study-shows-two-thirds-recently-departed-lawmakers-nowCommon Dreams, Eoin Higgins,] (30 May 2019)
2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

“I see why CBP officers were being so physically and sexually threatening towards me… Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets. This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter Quotes (2019), July 2019

Water , Behavior , Drink , Women

“Seems like Trump’s DOT Secretary, Elaine Chao, has been caught trying to use her position to enrich her family’s shipping company. Her husband has lots of sway in US laws, too: Mitch McConnell. At this point it might be easier to ask where in this admin there *isn’t* corruption.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter Post https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1135575427135737856, (3 June 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), June 2019

Family , Relation ships , Law

“The GOP is working overtime to dismantle labor unions, which are exceedingly popular with the American public. Unions secure higher wages and better work conditions. We should support them, even if we’re not in one.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Or look into unionization in your industry!
Twitter Post https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1135211015820533760, (2 June 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), June 2019

Support

“AOC to: @tedcruz if you’re serious about a clean bill, then I’m down. Let’s make a deal. If we can agree on a bill with no partisan snuck-in clauses, no poison pills, etc - just a straight, clean ban on members of Congress becoming paid lobbyists - then I’ll co-lead the bill with you.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Post https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1134199323263209480Twitter, (30 May 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), May 2019

Making love

“MomsDemand & #MarchForOurLives activists, who flew in from across the country, were watching from the gallery, crying + confused. I ran up to them *during the vote* and explained that the gotcha amendment pinned gun safety against immigration advocacy. Its intent was to divide.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (2 March 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), March 2019

Cry , Country

“Leadership starts with our choices. That’s why I decided that no one on my staff will make less than $52k/year. It’s likely one of the highest entry-level salaries on the Hill. We pinch pennies elsewhere, but it’s worth every dime to pay a living wage.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (22 February 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), February 2019

Making love

“Our future is imperiled, our economy is fragile, and frontline communities are vulnerable to major threats from rising sea levels to lead in our water. A #GreenNewDeal is a common sense, moral solution to fix these issues with the urgency they demand.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC (22 February 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), February 2019

Future , Communication , Water , Sense

“You shouldn’t need a Bible to tell you to protect our planet, but it does anyway.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1088200189524017157 (23 January 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), January 2019

“Financial Services is one of just four exclusive committees in the House. It oversees big banks, lending, & the financial sector….”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1085380063112105984 (15 January 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), January 2019

Housing

“When you look at how he reacted to the Charlottesville incident, where neo-Nazis murdered a woman, versus how he manufactures crises like immigrants seeking legal refuge on our borders, it’s—it’s night and day.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

7 January 2019 interview https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1082425925470470146 commenting on Donald Trump to Anderson Cooper in 60 Minutes, rebroadcast 23 June 2019
Twitter Quotes (2019), January 2019

Night

“Many people ask what a Green New Deal entails. We are calling for a wartime-level, just economic mobilization plan to get to 100% renewable energy ASAP. To read more, check out…”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1080269371921088514 (1 January 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), January 2019

People , Reading

“A few more ways to gain traction: - Support a Federal Jobs Guarantee, - Bailout Student Debt, - Legalize Marijuana & Explore Reparations, Baby Bonds. Here’s our Student Loan Cancellation Digital Town Hall…”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1080310857161232384 (1 January 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), January 2019

Way , Support , Baby , Marijuana

“I grew up with a real romanticism about America. I grew up in a first-generation household where your parents give up everything, and for me America was the greatest thing ever to exist. To be there on the floor of the House was beyond anything my parents would have ever dreamed of.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Quoted in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!, David Remnick, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-coming-for-your-hamburgers (3 March 2019)
Quotes (2019)

Housing , Dreams , Parent

“The thing that people don’t understand about restaurants is that they’re one of the most political environments. You’re shoulder-to-shoulder with immigrants. You’re at one of the nexuses of income inequality. Your hourly wage is even less than the minimum wage. You’re working for tips. You’re getting sexually harassed.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-interview-797214/ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big, Rolling Stone

People , Understanding

“Black folks are descendants of slaves that were imported, quote-unquote by slave owners, to the United States for the explicit purpose of cultivating crops. And it was predicated on white supremacy and racial superiority, but we have to understand that white supremacy exists for a reason, and they exist for a very specific cultural and economic reasons. And LBJ talked about this — like, if you can convince a poor white man that he’s superior to a black man, he’ll empty his pockets for you. And so it’s not just economic reasons why racism exists but there are economic reasons why racism is perpetuated and incentivized. More of that’s housing, income, et cetera. And like I said on Monday with Ta-Nehisi, until America tells the truth about itself we’re never going to heal. And this — it’s like this thing that as a culture we hide… it’s like this big wound with a big ugly scab on it, and it’s just going to stay this itchy thing that we keep going back to until we just deal with it.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her First Weeks In Washington, The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2019/01/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-podcast/ (28 January 2019)
Quotes (2019)

Truth , Understanding , Housing , Quotes

“It is actually not about a wall, it is not about the border, and it is certainly not about the well-being of everyday Americans… The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Quoted in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's First House Speech Broke a C-SPAN Record. Here's What She Said, Time magazine http://time.com/5506749/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-house-speech-cspan-record/ (17 January 2018)
Quotes (2019)

Democracy , Truth

“Everybody knows someone in their life that is already an amazing public servant… Nominate that amazing public servant to take their service to the halls of Congress. Give them that nudge. My brother did it for me.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Quoted in [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helps recruit a new wave of Democrats, NY Post https://nypost.com/2019/01/16/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-helps-recruit-a-new-wave-of-democrats/ (16 January 2019)
Quotes (2019)

Life

“This time a year ago, I was bartending while running a long-shot campaign for Congress. That time felt so dark and yet so hopeful at the same time. Our odds were dismal + I was dismissed, but we felt that fighting hard for what’s right - even uphill - was worth it. Keep going.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1079052935483609090 (29 December 2018)
Twitter Quotes (2018)

Fight , Time , Hope

“True love is radical because it requires us to see ourselves in all people. Otherwise, it isn’t love. Love is revolutionary because it has us treat ALL people as we would ourselves - not because we are charitable, but because we are one. That is love’s radical conclusion.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1077776366450429958 (25 December 2018)
Twitter Quotes (2018)

Love , Making love , People

“I have spoken in the past about how youth is not an embodiment of age, but of attitude - a willingness to risk for what is right, among others. We also shouldn’t be afraid to acknowledge the dearth of young elected officials + those implications.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1076907387833978882 (23 December 2018)
Twitter Quotes (2018)

Past , Youth , Age

“The mentorship of elders is what got me here. In Latinx + Indigenous communities, elder is an honorific that doesn’t come with age - it comes w/ univ acknowledgement of wisdom. But to delay large action on climate doesn’t include the wisdom of elders nor the urgency of youth.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1076909133255852032 (23 December 2018)
Twitter Quotes (2018)

Youth , Wisdom , Age , Communication

“The age difference between myself (29) + oldest House members is ~60yrs. For better or worse, young people will live in the world Congress leaves behind. That’s why I focus on our future: addressing climate change & runaway income inequality, ending school-to-prison pipelines, etc.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1076894689352142848 (23 December 2018)
Twitter Quotes (2018)

School , Housing , Future , People

“I do think that we’ve been taking it too much. I think we’ve been tolerating the intolerable.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Source: Alex Morris Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big, Rolling Stone, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-interview-797214/ (27 February 2019)

Thinking

“If we are only organizing for elections, we are not going to win the world that we need...No one politician is the answer. No one president is the answer. You are the answer, mass movements are the answer.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

via tweet https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324895073776054273 on November 6, 2020
Twitter Quotes (2020), November 2020

World

“Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job. It's indentured servitude. All labor has dignity and the way that we give labor dignity is by paying people the respect and the value that they are worth... We have to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter Post https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1134631705153802241, (31 May 2019)
2019, Twitter Quotes (2019), May 2019

Way , People

“A few social media ideas for public servants looking to build an audience: - Endorse Single-Payer Medicare for All, - Hold Wall Street Accountable, - Make Min Wage = Living Wage, - Cancel Puerto Rican Debt, - End For-Profit Prisons & ICE Detention, - Fight for a #GreenNewDeal”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1080300714126200832 (1 January 2019)
2019, January 2019