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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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“Right now Freshman members of Congress are at a “Bipartisan” orientation w/ briefings on issues. Invited panelists offer insights to inform new Congressmembers‘ views as they prepare to legislate. # of Corporate CEOs we’ve listened to here: 4# of Labor leaders: 0 *Our “bipartisan” Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group. Other members have quietly expressed to me their concern that this wasn’t told to us in advance. Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where‘s labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?”
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Recorded in: Posted on Twitter (6 December 2018)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (23 December 2018)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (23 December 2018)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (23 December 2018)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (25 December 2018)
“We should aim to work for an America where developing our potential through college or vocational education isn’t a gift or luxury, but a matter of course guaranteed by society. Just like K-12. Until then, I am so thankful for those who move heaven + earth to give kids a shot.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (27 December 2018)
“Don’t be fooled by the plaques that we got, I’m still / I’m still Alex from the Bronx”
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Recorded in: 27 December 2018
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (29 December 2018)
“I have three months without a salary before I'm a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real”
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Recorded in: Said to the NYTimes in 2018 according to The first Gen Z member of Congress was denied a D.C. apartment due to bad credit (December 9, 20225:00 AM ET)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helps recruit a new wave of Democrats, NY Post (16 January 2019)
“His (president Trump's) job is to find solutions, analyze and adapt in real time to keep people safe in one of the busiest air spaces in the United States and the world...And it is terrifying to think that almost every single air traffic controller in the United States is currently distracted at work because they don’t know when their next paycheck is coming.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's First House Speech Broke a C-SPAN Record. Here's What She Said, Time magazine (17 January 2018)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's First House Speech Broke a C-SPAN Record. Here's What She Said, Time magazine (17 January 2018)
“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... 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...”
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Recorded in: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her First Weeks In Washington, The Intercept (28 January 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.”
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Recorded in: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her First Weeks In Washington, The Intercept (28 January 2019)
“Even the solutions that we have considered big and bold are nowhere near the scale of the actual problem that climate change presents to us... It could be part of a larger solution, but no one has actually scoped out what that larger solution would entail. And so that's really what we're trying to accomplish with the Green New Deal.”
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“I do think that when there's a wide spectrum of debate on an issue, that is where the public plays a role. That is where the public needs to call their member of Congress and say, 'This is something that I care about,'...Where I do have trust is in my colleagues' capacity to change and evolve and be adaptable and listen to their constituents.”
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Recorded in: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline, by Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR (7 February 2019)
“Reminder that their plan = no plan. Why? Because for billionaires, things are already going fine.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in For Billionaires, Things Are Already Fine': Ocasio-Cortez Pinpoints Why Howard Schultz Has No Serious Tax Plan, Julia Conley, Common Dreams (13 Feb 2019)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Alex Morris Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big, Rolling Stone, (27 February 2019)
“I was actually talking to a Republican House member on the floor, and he’s like, “Are you a communist?... It’s OK if you are.” And I just started laughing because that is exactly how Fox News wants to go.”
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Recorded in: Alex Morris Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big, Rolling Stone, (27 February 2019)
“I do think that we’ve been taking it too much. I think we’ve been tolerating the intolerable.”
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Recorded in: Alex Morris Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big, Rolling Stone, (27 February 2019)
“The last time I was pissed was the president’s bullshit border address, watching this guy just be racist from the Oval Office. I saw it as a defilement. In terms of how we channel it, we just take that anger and that energy and use it to say, “This is why we need the moonshot.”
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Recorded in: Alex Morris Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big, Rolling Stone, (27 February 2019)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!, David Remnick, The New Yorker, (3 March 2019)
“The DCCC's new rule to blacklist + boycott anyone who does business with primary challengers is extremely divisive and harmful to the party... My recommendation, if you're a small-dollar donor: pause your donations to DCCC and give directly to swing candidates instead.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Ocasio-Cortez Tells Small Donors to Cut Off DCCC Donations, Give Directly to Candidates Instead, Common Dreams, Jake Johnson, (30 March 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.”
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Recorded in: AOC Calls for Ban on Revolving Door as Study Shows Two-Thirds of Recently Departed Lawmakers Now K Street LobbyistsCommon Dreams, Eoin Higgins,] (30 May 2019)
“Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude... All labor has dignity, and the way that we give labor dignity is by paying people the respect and value that they are worth at minimum... When we talk about tipped wages, people think of this industry, people think of bartenders and they think of waitresses.. But they don't think about nail salon workers, they don't think about car wash attendants. They don't think about these people that, so many of us don't even know, are depending on our tips, too.”
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Recorded in: Ocasio-Cortez waits tables to raise awareness for increasing minimum wage, CNN, Caroline Kelly, (1 June 2019)
“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”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (1 January 2019)
“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...”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (1 January 2019)
“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...”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (1 January 2019)
“Congresswomen dance too!”
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Recorded in: 💃🏽Tweet Jan 4, 2019
“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.”
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Recorded in: 7 January 2019 interview commenting on Donald Trump to Anderson Cooper in 60 Minutes, rebroadcast 23 June 2019
“Financial Services is one of just four exclusive committees in the House. It oversees big banks, lending, & the financial sector....”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (15 January 2019)
“Personally, I’m looking forward to digging into the student loan crisis, examining for-profit prisons/ICE detention, and exploring the development of public & postal banking. To start.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (15 January 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?”
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Recorded in: World is going to end in 12 years” (21 January 2019) interview by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Me: “I don’t think billionaires should concentrate wealth while employing people who are sleeping in cars working a zillion hours to survive.” Next day: “That will be TEN PINOCCHIOS to Ocasio, ‘zillion’ is not a number and I found someone who sleeps in a tent, not a car.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (22 January 2019)
“You shouldn’t need a Bible to tell you to protect our planet, but it does anyway.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (23 January 2019)
“For too long, we’ve been told “no” to a substantially better future - that the America that went to the moon, pursued the Great Society & electrified the nation is no longer possible. I disagree. Instead, let’s break past our self-defined limits and redefine what’s possible.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (24 January 2019)
“There are multiple doctored GND resolutions and FAQs floating around. There was also a draft version that got uploaded + taken down. There’s also draft versions floating out there. Point is, the real one is our submitted resolution, H.Res. 109: (link redirect to) https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (9 February 2019)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (22 February 2019)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (22 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.”
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“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (23 February 2019)
“The GOP is so disconnected from the basic idea that people should be paid enough to live that Fox actually thinks me paying a living wage in my office is “communism.” So the next time GOP screams “socialist,” know that’s their go-to attack for any common-sense, humane policy.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (25 February 2019)
“GOP defensively say, “we’re not scared of dancing women!” yet proceed to use footage of me dancing “with the color drained to make it look more ominous.” 🤣 Spoiler: The GOP *is* scared of dancing women, because they fear the liberation of all identities taught to feel shame.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (28 February 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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (28 February 2019)
“At [DHS immigrant detention] facility, children recounted being held down for forcible injections, which medical records show are powerful antipsychotics and sedatives. I think an agency that pins children down + forcibly injects them w/ antipsychotic drugs shouldn’t be given more power.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (2 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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (2 March 2019)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (2 March 2019)
“Mind you, the same small splinter group of Dems that tried to deny Pelosi the speakership, fund the wall during the shutdown when the public didn’t want it, & are now voting in surprise ICE amendments... are being called the “moderate wing” of the party.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (2 March 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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (2 March 2019)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (2 March 2019)