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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born October 13, 1989) is an American activist, community organizer, and politician.

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Weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 15 hours ago Top News

This has to also be about saying, Hey, time to turnthe page and write the new chapter, and what does that look like?

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 3 days ago Entertainment

Hannity added. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has recently been clashing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and has suggested that Nancy Pelosi has been singling out Nancy Pelosi and three fellow freshman congresswomen because of race. But the persistent singling out... It got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful. ... The explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 4 days ago Latest Headlines

The Senate bill is not a humanitarian bill by any stretch of the imagination.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 19 days ago Politics

For 40 years before Auschwitz, we had concentration camps -- things that were called Concentration Camps -- what we're doing now fits very cleanly inside that tradition.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 27 days ago Top News

It may be politically convenient, and it may make you look good in the short term for saying, Oh were not voting for pay increases, but we should be fighting for pay increases for every American worker, we should be fighting for a $ 15 minimum wage pegged to inflation so that everybody in the United States with a salary with a wage gets a cost of living increase.Members of Congress, retail workers, everybody should get cost of living increases to accommodate for the changes in our economy. And then when we dont do that, it only increases the pressure on members to exploit loopholes like insider-trading loopholes, to make it on the back end.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

Its not even like a raise.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

On the 28th or 29th of the month, you will let that person touch you because of economic desperation.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

What I would like to see in a presidential candidate is one that has a coherent world view and logic from which all these policy proposals are coming forward. I think Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has that. I also think Sen. Warren has that.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need a' middle of the road' approach to save our lives.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

If the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to have a 'middle of the road approach' to save our lives, that is too much for me.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Environment

For what purpose does the gentleman from Ohio - um, from Illinois, excuse me, seek recognition? that was my first time presiding. And it's exciting. It's certainly a view. I wish we could, I wish we were allowed to take photos.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

That was my first time presiding. And it's exciting. It's certainly a view. I wish we could, I wish we were allowed to take photos.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

Many know I take no pleasure in discussions of impeachment. I didn't campaign on it, & rarely discuss it unprompted, but the report squarely puts this on our doorstep.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly. Their moral -- their lack of moral grounding on so many issues, and, not just that, but the reason they are so upset, and they act like that girl in The Exorcist thats like vomiting pea soup, thats like them and negativity.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Opinion

You know this is part of a pattern that the right and the far-right and, frankly, the President is consistent with, he doesn't have another woman, Hillary Clinton or whoever else, to vilify anymore so they need to find another woman to kind of prop up and become a lightning rod.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Anything is possible, today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers their neighbors defeated Amazon's corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Can everyday people come together and effectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the worlds biggest corporations ? Yes, they can.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Tech

It's about comparing his financial statements with his tax reports. What Cohen named particularly were the Trump Organization taxes.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

And this doesn't seem to be the only time The President has benefited at the expense of the public.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

An agency like ICE, which repeatedly and systematically violates human rights, does not deserve a dime.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Politics

Today is the day that we choose to assert ourselves as a global leader in transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy and charting that path.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Environment

I think the president was unprepared. I don't think he did his homework. ... There was no plan, is this a campaign stop or a State of the Union?

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Top News

That is the goal. Its ambitious.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Opinion

I think thats the direction that we absolutely need to go in, i think one of the things that were hearing right here in our, that were really discovering in our hearings is that we -- the real issue with our health care system is that were trying to have it both ways. Were trying to have half a free market system, half a more public system. And it is in the half-commitments that our systems are breaking down.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Politics

The women and children on the border that are trying to seek refuge and seek opportunity in the United States of America with nothing but the shirt on their backs are acting more American than any person who seeks to keep them out ever will be.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Opinion

Double standards are Paul Ryan being elected at 28 and immediately being given the benefit of his ill-considered policies considered genius ; and me winning a primary at 28 to immediately be treated with suspicion scrutinized, down to my clothing, of being a fraud.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

There's so many people that know that we're going into the lion's den, even within the party.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

We had been building and building, knocking on doors and doing everything we could, but a lot of the rhetoric I was met with from day one was,' You know,( Jeff Klein) is so powerful, and you have an uphill battle and I don't know if I want to donate. I received so many no's and so many question marks, asking if it was possible, then June 26th happened.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

But me ? I'm going up that hill and I hope you are, too.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

They said what we did in the Bronx no one would care about here in Kansas City, they told me I would not be welcome. But you have proven them wrong.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 12 months ago Politics

With allies like Alexandria and James in the Congress, we are going to pass a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program, and please understand that this idea of Medicare for all – this is not a radical idea.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 12 months ago Latest Headlines

I think there was a lack of listening on the ground, a lack of going to the grocery store and saying, 'Hey, how are you doing?'.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

Well, I'm female, I'm progressive and the rest, so what's your problem ? two out of three ain't bad.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez