Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
ON THE RECORD · 10 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“For a very long time, working class was a euphemism for race and gender,”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Ocasio-Cortez said working class was historically used as a euphemism for race and gender in an MS NOW interview.
“We need to be operating with what these candidates ran on,”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Ocasio-Cortez argued candidates should be judged on their own proposals rather than outside organizations' platforms.
“It was really about a very specific and only one slice of the working class.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Ocasio-Cortez argued the term working class referred to only one specific slice of the working class.
“some organization somewhere in our country is saying.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Ocasio-Cortez said candidates should be judged on what they ran on rather than what some organization is saying.
“If Abdul can win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-11
Welker referenced a reported comment by Ocasio-Cortez while asking El-Sayed about a presidential run.
“full and independent investigation”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said 2026-10-09 · reported 2026-10-09
Ocasio-Cortez called for a full and independent investigation of the ICE shooting and the release of all body camera video.
“The Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said 2026-10-09 · reported 2026-10-09
Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement that Target should stop allowing its Bronx properties to be used as staging sites for ICE operations.
“a lot of people cannot fathom what an abolitionist America looks like. Tell them it looks like a suburb. Affluent white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health, housing more than they fund police.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-19
AOC's 2020 comment describing what an abolitionist America could look like.
“We all share the goals of having as low a crime rate as possible [but] rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said 2026-08-09 · reported 2026-08-19
AOC made this remark about crime rhetoric during her August 9 appearance on ABC's This Week with Jonathan Karl.
“Woke 1 was crazyyyyy.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · said 2026-08-09 · reported 2026-08-19
AOC made this joking remark about 2020-era police abolition demands during a recent ABC This Week appearance.