The three branches of government are the Presidency, the House, and the Senate.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
This Week, the second sexual assault allegation and the sixth harassment allegation was leveled against Governor Governor Cuomo.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Well, it’s good to know what kind of person she is early. Also good to know that Mace is cut from the same Trump cloth of dishonesty and opportunism.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People must understand the depth of what’s happening here: the President of the United States has ordered a halt to deportations. ICE, a federal agency, is refusing to comply, there’s no reforming this rogue dept. It’s time for a new, just vision.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Someone like Rahm Emanuel would be a pretty divisive pick, and it would signal, I think, a hostile approach to the grass-roots and the progressive wing of the party.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The reason I say this and the reason I’m getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on, that it’s not a big deal, that we should forget what’s happened, or even telling us to apologize. These are the same tactics of abusers. And, um, I’m a survivor of sexual assault, and I haven’t told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other. And so, whether you had a negligent or a neglectful parent, and — or whether you had someone who was verbally abusive to you, whether you are a survivor of abuse, whether you experience any sort of trauma in your life, small to large — these episodes can compound on one another.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
It communicates that he meant what he said on the campaign trail that he would make climate change a central priority of his administration.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The moment you bring a gun onto the House floor in violation of rules, you put everyone around you in danger. It is irresponsible, it is reckless, but beyond that it is the violation of rules, you are openly disobeying the rules that we have established as a community, which means that you can not be trusted to be held accountable to what we’ve decided as a community. And so I don’t really care what they say their intentions are, I care what the impact of their actions are, and the impact is to put all 435 members of Congress in danger.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The slimmer margin, it cuts both ways, its tough because we have to make sure that we cobble together a winning majority, but also its solid because were able to push a little bit more.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Holy cow… Can y’ all hear me ? , this is pretty wild. I’m pretty excited.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
When it comes to progressive leadership, it’s not your age that counts, it’s the age of your ideas, and Ed Markey is Ed Markey that we need.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
What you all have shown is that a people’s movement here is not an accident, it is a mandate, this absolutely strengthens us. It’s not just about winning or losing, but so much of this is about how we win. To win with that kind of mandate is transformative, and it tells us that our policy positions are not an accident.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
This crisis is not really creating new problems, it’s pouring gasoline on Puerto Ricans and Dominicans existing ones.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
We really need to make sure that we are advocating and pushing for immediate cash infusions, weare asking for a complete halt to student loan payments, a halt on evictions nationwide. And we are also calling for mortgage relief.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Who can afford a plane ticket on such short notice, we need to make sure that low-income students can get reimbursed for that enormous disruption and economic setback.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
It is a step forward, but it is completely insufficient.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
A president can’t wave a magic wand and pass any legislation they want, the worst-case scenario ? We compromise deeply and we end up getting a public option.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The worst-case scenario? We compromise deeply, and we end up getting a public option. Is that a nightmare? I dont think so.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I want to talk about why Bernie. Because Bernie has not committed to what was right when it was popular, it is hard to stand up andfight for someone you dont know when its not the popular thing to do and he has done it his whole damm life.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples lives, the only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. UK, Vote!– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Im looking forward to seeing where and how far theyd be willing to move on that, but Im encouraged, i think theres some wiggle room here.Its super-bizarre,really weird. Never thought in my life that one of my first pushes would be alongside Ted Cruz.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I would like to see in a presidential candidate is one that has a coherent worldview and logic from which all these policy proposals are coming forward, i think Sen. Sanders has that. I also think Sen. Warren has that. I also want to see us centering( on) working people in the United States to stem income inequality( and) tackle climate change.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I didn’t have health care. I wasn’t being paid a living wage, and I didn’t think that I deserved any of those things.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The only reason that I had any hope in launching a long-shot campaign for Congress is because Bernie Sanders proved that you can run a grassroots campaign and win in an America where we almost thought it was impossible.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
It wasn’t until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being that deserves health care, housing, education and a living wage.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
We are talking about the president using the full power of the United States government in order to pursue and manufacture a politically-motivated investigation against a political opponent, i think its an allegation that, frankly, has united more members of the party on impeachment than any other, and so for that, I think its an understandable decision that we make.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
With the Ocasio2020 campaign beginning to ramp up, I’ve asked Corbin to transition to the campaign full-time and he has agreed to do so, i’m looking forward to growing the movement with him in Queens and the Bronx and across the country.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I think overall it’s to have a more open-ended conversation and see what we can do to come together on strategy. Certainly immigration is a part of that conversation.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I’ll be very honest, I got heat from my own party for that — for making that point. But if we really want to pass a humanitarian bill then let’s make a humanitarian bill and if it’s not a humanitarian bill then don’t call it a humanitarian bill. It’s a border militarization bill.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ilhan Omar kind of presided over the situation, Ilhan Omar relished it, Ilhan Omar took it in.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Combined, that means over 300,000 children have entered our custody since October 1st.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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
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
The Senate bill is not a humanitarian bill by any stretch of the imagination.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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
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
Its not even like a raise.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
On the 28th or 29th of the month, you will let that person touch you because of economic desperation.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Can everyday people come together and effectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the worlds biggest corporations ? Yes, they can.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
It’s about comparing his financial statements with his tax reports. What Cohen named particularly were the Trump Organization taxes.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
And this doesn’t seem to be the only time The President has benefited at the expense of the public.– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
An agency like ICE, which repeatedly and systematically violates human rights, does not deserve a dime.
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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