Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Billionaires and AIPAC are spending $50 million to stop Abdul, but they can’t stop a movement.

I do think that the revolt that is happening in these communities is very palpable and powerful.

The reckoning that we’re seeing in some of these primaries is that what is different between Trump 1 and Trump 2 is that I think your median Democratic voter desperately wants to do everything to get Trump out of power.

I think a lot of people aren’t sure, depending on where you’re from, what it means to be a Democrat

All that money we're spending on bombs abroad could be spent on schools right here.

They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the U.K., Canada, everybody else has it better than us.

They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care in this country.

I think that’s part of why this primary process has been so active this year, because we’re having much deeper substantive conversations than just … what is the color next to the box on your name

I don’t have the power or ability to do that, it is what it is, we’re working with what we’ve got.

I’m a House member, we all hate the Senate.

They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care.

I think that’s very silly.

No. I’m not concerned about America turning into a communist country in like a year.

I think what we’re actually experiencing right now is a more nuanced conversation than to simply treat black people and black voters in this country as a monolith.

You're gonna have to ask a voter about that.

I have genuinely not really weighed seriously anything past the midterm elections.

I think that it is good that we don't take the order for granted, and just copy and paste it every cycle.

I think my main focus is really genuinely just the midterms right now, and we have to make sure that we win this majority,

I think there’s two things, one is that you know polls are polls, and a horse race is a horse race. I am, of course, I think very deeply humbled and grateful to you folks who participate and convey that confidence,

This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

Yet far too many are still covering Trump’s assault on democracy like politics as usual, with flattering headlines describing Trump as 'unconventional,' 'testing the boundaries,' and 'aggressively flexing power.'

An existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy,

Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard.

Republicans are trying to pull a trick this week.

When the stakes are so high, eventually we have to ask ourselves: Is the answer to our problems to turn to the same playbook over and over again?