Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“You can't earn a billion dollars. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they're worth, but you can't earn that.”

other·2026-05-08·1 source·pending

“The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. We are declaring independence from an extreme marriage of wealth and power and the state.”

other·2026-05-08·1 source·pending

“The Senate filibuster was created by a clerical error and Jim Crow segregationists used it to delay the enfranchisement of Black Americans for decades. We should abolish it.”

policy plan·2026-05-08·1 source·pending

“They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.”

“Presidents come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever — that is the kind of change I am chasing.”

“We need to restore previous health care safeguards, but I think we also need to go further — moving towards guaranteeing health care to every American.”

policy plan·2026-04-02·1 source·pending

“I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never.”

“There are a lot of organizations with which I may have a more transactional political relationship. I do not seek a transactional relationship with DSA. I seek a relationship of mutuality and shared interest.”

“The Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system. Consistent with my voting record, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars or military aid to a government that ignores international and U.S. law.”

policy plan·2026-03-31·1 source·pending

“I have differences with this administration, but I would want them to be successful in reducing the energy bills of the American people. People aren't feeling it. It's not working.”

other·2026-03-25·1 source·pending

“The idea is good but the text itself was rushed and not thought through — referring to the Mace resolution to publicly release House Ethics Committee files on sexual misconduct.”

other·2026-03-10·1 source·pending

“They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we turn into an age of authoritarians.”

“Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber-rattle around Europe and try to bully our own allies.”

“It is our global alliances that can be a hard stop against authoritarian consolidation of power, particularly in the installation of regional puppet governments.”

“We need to revisit our commitments to international aid, not just USAID, but the dozens of global compacts that the current Secretary of State and President Trump have withdrawn from.”

“It is not enough to take down content. We have to give victims a civil right of action. Take It Down gave us removal; DEFIANCE will give us recourse and restitution.”

policy plan·2026-01-22·1 source·pending

“Trump has crossed the line of impeachable offenses, absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt — starting from the very beginning, with the seizure of funds that are mandated to go out.”

“You know, these polls three years out, they are what they are. But let the record show, I will stomp him.”

“Big corporations are using tariffs as an excuse to gouge consumers. The No GOUGE Act would crack down on price gouging tied to Trump-era tariffs and protect working families.”

policy plan·2025-12-01·1 source·pending

“The forces Zohran Mamdani is up against in this race mirror what we are up against nationally: an authoritarian, criminal presidency fueled by corruption and bigotry, and an ascendant right-wing extremist movement.”

other·2025-10-26·1 source·pending