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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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“The entire PREMISE of a wall is not based in fact. It’s based in a racist + non-evidence based trope that immigrants are dangerous. Yet some Dems are willing to “compromise” & spend BILLIONS on a trope because we’ve accepted some kinds of racism as realpolitik in America.”
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Recorded in: Twitter post, (6 March 2019)
“Sandy Hook happened 6 years ago and we can’t even get the Senate to hold a vote on universal background checks w/ #HR8. Christchurch happened, and within days New Zealand acted to get weapons of war out of the consumer market. This is what leadership looks like. (Her tweet pointed to a tweet with quote from New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Arden “Today I am announcing that New Zealand will ban all military-style semi-automatic weapons.”)”
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Recorded in: Twitter Post (20 March 2019)
“Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today. @IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress. We must speak out. “First they came...”
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Recorded in: 12 April 2019 highlighted April 13 by Fox
“This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check’ it. Like the ‘world ending in 12 years’ thing, you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows.”
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Recorded in: Just Kidding, Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”, Kyle Smith, National Review (May 13, 2019), tweet from May 12, 2019
“AOC to: @tedcruz if you’re serious about a clean bill, then I’m down.Let’s make a deal. If we can agree on a bill with no partisan snuck-in clauses, no poison pills, etc - just a straight, clean ban on members of Congress becoming paid lobbyists - then I’ll co-lead the bill with you.”
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Recorded in: Post, (30 May 2019)
“Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job. It's indentured servitude. All labor has dignity and the way that we give labor dignity is by paying people the respect and the value that they are worth... We have to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour.”
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Recorded in: Twitter Post, (31 May 2019)
“The GOP is working overtime to dismantle labor unions, which are exceedingly popular with the American public. Unions secure higher wages and better work conditions. We should support them, even if we’re not in one. (Or look into unionization in your industry!)”
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Recorded in: Twitter Post, (2 June 2019)
“Seems like Trump’s DOT Secretary, Elaine Chao,has been caught trying to use her position to enrich her family’s shipping company. Her husband has lots of sway in US laws, too: Mitch McConnell. At this point it might be easier to ask where in this admin there *isn’t* corruption.”
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Recorded in: Twitter Post, (3 June 2019)
“* I think he should apologize for the deliberate conflation and attack on these terms”
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Recorded in: according to OCASIO-CORTEZ NOT APOLOGIZING TO KEVIN MCCARTHY: "HE SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO THE CHILDREN THAT HAVE BEEN SEPARATED FROM THEIR PARENTS" (Nicholas Ballasy June 21 2019, 10:59 a.m.)
“Are we headed to fascism? Yes. I don’t think there’s a question... If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president, the answer is yes.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Ocasio-Cortez says U.S. is headed to 'fascism' under Trump, The Hill, Justin Wise (3 July 2019)
“I see why CBP officers were being so physically and sexually threatening towards me... Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets. This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Ocasio-Cortez says U.S. is headed to 'fascism' under Trump, The Hill, Justin Wise (3 July 2019)
“We withdrew U.S. aid to those areas that was intended to stabilize those areas... It deepened and exacerbated all of the crises that are already happening, causing a flood of people to try to escape these horrifying conditions. So we are contributing to the surge in the first place. We’re engineering it, so that’s coming to our border.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Ocasio-Cortez says U.S. is headed to 'fascism' under Trump, The Hill, Justin Wise (3 July 2019)
“No child should ever be separated from their parent. No child should ever taken from their family. No woman should ever be locked up in a pen when they have done no harm to another human being.”
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Recorded in: AOC quoted by The Hill, Twitter, (2 July 2019)
“I can’t understate how disturbing it was that CBP officers were openly disrespectful of the Congressional tour. If officers felt comfortable violating agreements in front of their *own* management & superiors, that tells us the agency has lost all control of their own officers. Congresswoman Madeleine Dean: We were met with hostility from the guards, but this is nothing compared to their treatment of the people being held. The detainees are constantly abused and verbally harassed with no cause. Deprived physically and dehumanized mentally - everyday.”
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Recorded in: Twitter, (2 July 2019)
“Even if they let you in, these women told us CBP did a lot of “cleaning up” before we arrived. They were moved into that room from outside tents before our arrival. They said they’d gone 15 days w/o a shower, & were allowed to start bathing 4 days ago (when visit was announced).”
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Recorded in: Twitter, (1 July 2019)
“Members of Congress had to surrender their phones before today’s CBP trip.But @JoaquinCastrotx was able to get a device in. This photo is of the women we spoke to. We asked their permission to photograph - they said yes, please share what’s happening.”
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Recorded in: Twitter, (1 July 2019)
“Meanwhile, one refrain we‘ve heard is that people are overcrowded in CBP concentration camps because the shelters (which are humane places where families can stay together) are full. So we went to a shelter. They said that wasn’t true at all. Only 150/500 spots were filled.”
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Recorded in: Twitter, (1 July 2019)
“What’s haunting is that the women I met with today told me in no uncertain terms that they would experience retribution for telling us what they shared.They all began sobbing - out of fear of being punished, out of sickness, out of desperation, lack of sleep, trauma, despair.”
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Recorded in: Twitter, (1 July 2019)
“I actually think I have a lot of common ground with many libertarian viewpoints… True libertarians, which many happen to be in the Republican Party, true libertarian viewpoints are pro-immigration.”
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Recorded in: Billy Binion, ““Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'I Have a Lot of Common Ground With Many Libertarian Viewpoints'”, Reason magazine, (Aug. 8, 2019) from Instagram live stream (Aug. 2, 2019)
“Susan Collins is not a moderate. She just plays one on TV.”
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Recorded in: Twitter (March 23, 2020)
“People really need to ask themselves why their communities chose to erect statues to slaveholders instead of abolitionists.”
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Recorded in: 7/11/2020 on Twitter
“Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires.”
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Recorded in: Twitter (August 8, 2020)
“Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring towards a better, more just future for our country and our world.”
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“In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crises of mass evictions, unemployment and lack of health care, and espíritu del pueblo and out of a love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States of America. (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks via video feed during the second day of the Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020)”
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Recorded in: As quoted in: AOC Was the Highlight of DNC’s Night Two Despite Speaking Just 97 Seconds William Rivers Pitt, Truthout August 18, 2020.
“Aggressive, overreaching wealth redistribution *does* happen in the United States, it just happens in the opposite direction conservatives scream about: our system takes money away from everyday people and siphons it towards the profanely wealthy.”
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Recorded in: 9/16/2020 on Twitter
“If we are only organizing for elections, we are not going to win the world that we need...No one politician is the answer. No one president is the answer. You are the answer, mass movements are the answer.”
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Recorded in: via tweet (November 6, 2020)
“I hope people realize that the same Republicans who are refusing to acknowledge the results of our elections also champion disastrous foreign policy claiming they're "bringing democracy" to other nations.”
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Recorded in: 11/10/2020 on Twitter
“1. Policy- Passing BIF without BBB is a huge gamble. People will point to pro-climate investments in BIF, but the oil & gas giveaways wipe out its progress to 0 or risk worse emissions. Passing BBB unlocks BIF climate perks”
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“2. Political - there were many, many promises made to get to Friday’s passage. Promises from mod Dems, House leadership, and the President himself.”
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“If those promises do not get fulfilled, it will make future passage of anything much more difficult. BIF will look like a cakewalk”
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Recorded in: via Twitter Tweet (November 7, 2021)
“In Washington, I usually know my questions of power are getting somewhere when the powerful stop referring to me as “Congresswoman” and start referring to me as “young lady” instead”
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“Imagine if every time someone referred to someone as ‘young lady’ they were responded to by being addressed with their age and gender? They’d be pretty upset if one responded with ‘the old man’, right? Why this kind of weird, patronizing behavior is so accepted is beyond me!”
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Recorded in: Weird, patronizing behavior’: AOC lets rip at Manchin’s ‘young lady’ remark (September 13, 2021)
“Six weeks pregnant means two weeks late for your period... And two weeks late on your period for any person -- any person with a menstrual cycle -- can happen if you're stressed, if your diet changes or for really no reason at all. So you don't have six weeks.”
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Recorded in: Fact Check: Texas abortion law doesn't give full 6 weeks to get an abortion, by Tara Subramaniam,CNN, (September 9, 2021)
“I'm sorry we have to break down Biology 101 on national television, but in case no one has informed him before in his life, six weeks pregnant means two weeks late for your period. And two weeks late on your period for any person -- any person with a menstrual cycle -- can happen if you're stressed, if your diet changes or for really no reason at all. So you don't have six weeks.”
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Recorded in: 'Disgusting': Ocasio-Cortez reacts to Abbott's comments on rape victims”, "Anderson Cooper 360", CNN, (September 7, 2021)
“Apartheid states aren’t democracies.”
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Recorded in: March 15 2021 on Twitter
“It is utterly embarrassing that “pay people enough to live” is a stance that’s even up for debate.”
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Recorded in: March 2 2021 on Twitter
“Charity can’t replace policy, but solidarity is how we’ll face climate change and build a better world.”
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Recorded in: Feb 21 2021 on Twitter
“Republicans could trip over their own shoelaces and they’d still find a way to blame me, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, the Green New Deal, BLM, anything but accept responsibility for their own actions and dealings. Ineptitude, bigotry, and corruption. Disasters in their own right.”
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Recorded in: Feb 17 2021 on Twitter
“Billionaires be like “the extreme far left is taking over” when the “extreme far left” in the US is “medicine shouldn’t bankrupt you,” “wages should cover rent,” & “maybe it’s bad that Wall St companies profit off mass surveillance, manufactured housing crises, and caging people”
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Recorded in: April 29 2022 on Twitter
“We could protect Roe tomorrow, but Sinema refuses to act on the filibuster. Until that changes she can take a seat talking about 'women’s access to health care.' Hold everyone contributing to this disaster accountable, GOP & Dem obstructionists included. She should be primaried.”
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Recorded in: Collins, Manchin and other lawmakers react to the Supreme Court draft opinion (Updated: 05/03/2022 03:11 PM EDT)
“There is no such thing as being “pro-life” while supporting laws that let children be shot in their schools, elders in grocery stores, worshippers in their houses of faith, survivors by abusers, or anyone in a crowded place.”
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Recorded in: May 24 2022 on Twitter
“Overturning Roe and outlawing abortions will never make them go away. It only makes them more dangerous, especially for the poor + marginalized. People will die because of this decision. And we will never stop until abortion rights are restored in the United States of America.”
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Recorded in: June 24 2022 on Twitter
“Let’s be real: there’s a WHOLE lot of men whose lives, careers, and families have benefited from an abortion (including several “pro-life” GOP Congressmen). Men, we need you right now. You can get through in rooms others can’t. Your power matters. Speak up. This is about us all.”
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Recorded in: June 25 2022 on Twitter
“Forced pregnancy is a crime against humanity.”
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Recorded in: June 26 2022 on Twitter
“Yesterday, a man sharing that member’s rhetoric tried to assassinate the Speaker and her spouse. What has @GOPLeader said? Nothing. This is who he is”
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“They said: 'We can do it all. We can fight for our families held hostage by Hamas, stand against occupation, stand with impacted Israelis, stand up for innocent Palestinians. May their humanity be an example”
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Recorded in: AOC meets with families of hostages being held in Gaza (October 20, 2023)
“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are slowed and halted just miles away. It looks like good and decent people who do nothing, or too little, too late.”
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Recorded in: AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel (March 22, 2024)
“I will not yield because it was a terribly disrespectful comment, and I will not yield to disrespectful men.”
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Recorded in: In response to criticism from Republican colleagues in the United States Committee on Energy and Commerce during a hearing regarding cuts to Medicaid (May 14, 2025)
“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.”
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Recorded in: At DSA forum, AOC pledges not to vote for any military aid to Israel (April 1, 2026)
“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. Senate, House seats, elected officials, come and go. But single-payer healthcare is forever.”
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Recorded in: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Speaks With David Axelrod in Chicago (May 8, 2026)