Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We have an opportunity right now to leapfrog, to not just catch up and patch up holes in walls.

The climate crisis does not impact all communities equally.

We actually need to do it.

Whether you experience any sort of trauma in your life small to large, these episodes can compound on one another.

If we are looking at ideals and what we think is the actual investment that can create tens of millions good union jobs in this country can shore up our health care, our infrastructure, our housing and doing it in a way that draws down our…

This is 2.2 5 trillion over eight years. For context -- because these huge numbers are hard to understand, for context, we passed an almost $2 trillion COVID relief package that`s supposed to last us one year with some provisions lasting…

What we think is the actual investment that can create tens of millions of good union jobs in this country, that can shore up our health care, our infrastructure, our housing, and doing it in a way that draws down our carbon emissions to…

We need that direct investment. We need to build the housing stock.

You have some of the most conservative members of the Democratic caucus, like Joe Manchin, that have even signaled support for a $4 trillion infrastructure plan.

If we could wave a magic wand and progressives in the House were able to name any number and get it through...we`re talking about realistically $10 trillion over ten years.

I have real concerns that $2.2 trillion isn`t actually going to get us there, so we`re going to have to make deeper investments to actually renew public housing.

I think there`s -- there are a couple of areas there. One is that, first of all, you know, this is $2.25 trillion over eight years.

I think that the vision that President Biden and the administration has laid out, you`re right, has surprised a lot of us in a positive way, and in the detail and the thought that`s here, the scope of it is really encouraging -- except I…

Dozens of the most prominent African-American CEOs and business leaders in the country published a full-page ad in 'The New York Times' urging corporate America to take stand against the new voter suppression laws like in Georgia.

I had a very close encounter, where I thought I was going to die. I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive. Wednesday was an extremely traumatizing event.

And do programs like Medicare for All and guaranteed childcare, healthcare, et cetera, does this go some of the way in helping recognize this work, alleviate for it?

It is unjust, and it is a burden that no generation before had to encounter to the scale and the level that ours has.

A ticking time bomb for our economy.

AOC is using her perch, her skills and her communications, which clearly are effective, and using them on behalf of Joe Biden on a place and an area where they agree.

I mean, I literally -- I read that and say, here`s a guy who has said the quiet part out loud. That is a racist thing.

This corporate landlords that we are talking about. This is Wall Street that has gobbled up our homes and now owns our communities and doesn't allow first-time homebuyers to come in.

Isn't that right, Ms. Gonzalez-Brito? The United States had a successful postal banking system for about 50 years, didn't we?

We cannot talk about education as a cure to Jim Crow when it is not Black, Brown, or Native people who need to be educated out of a wealth gap. Policy created this. Policy needs to solve it.

I felt that if this was the journey that my life was taking, that I felt that things were going to be OK.

So I hide behind my door, like this, like I`m here, and the bathroom door starts going like this, like the bathroom doors behind me or rather in front of me. And I`m like this and the door hinges right here. And I just hear where is she…