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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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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 4 days 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 18 days 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 24 days 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 25 days 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago Politics

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

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on Reuters 2 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 2 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 2 months ago Top News

That is the goal. Its ambitious.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 2 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 7 months ago Politics

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

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 8 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 9 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 9 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 9 months 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

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

My opponent has literally called ICE' fascist,' yet he refuses to take the stance of abolishing it, which, to me, is morally incomprehensible. Words mean something, and the moment you have identified something as fascist, that with it carries a moral responsibility to abolish it, that's what I'm talking about when we say that norms have been eroded : that we literally have elected officials arguing to basically retain fascist agencies. And that's on the left.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Democrats are a big tent party, you know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all several hundred members of Congress. But I do think that, once again, it's not about selling an - ism, or an ideology, or a label or a color. This is about selling our values.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

It's part of what I am, it's not all of what I am.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

There are a lot of districts in this country that are like New York 14.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

The message that we send the world tonight is that it's not OK to put donors before your community.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

When Chardo and I are elected.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Its extra-judicial nature is baked in to the structure of the agency and that is why they are able to get away with black sites at our border, with the separation of children.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 9 months ago Latest Headlines

We're having a grass roots, corporate-free political revolution in the United States, in 2018, it's not enough to just turn red districts blue. We need to turn blue districts bluer. If in a district that's 85% Democrat, if this seat hasn't been leading the charge on progressive issues, what's the point?

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

I think it's far too early to make those kinds of commitments right now.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

The only way that you beat a machine is with a movement and the only way that this movement can sustain is if we start in good faith on shared values of a New York citizen. I think that is where Cynthia and I come together, i very much value the work and the impact that she has already made, due to the fact that she can go on‘The View’andtalk about abolishing ICE. What we can do is tag-team this message so that every community can hear it that needs to hear it. And I think that that kind of solidarity across lines is very, very powerful.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 10 months ago Politics

The community is ready for a movement of economic and social justice, that is what we tried to deliver.

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News 10 months ago Politics

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