Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Anyone who tells you that we couldn`t have seen this coming is lying to you.

They chose to tell the lie.

We knew that violence was expected on the sixth. We knew that that violence was predicated on someone telling the lie, the big lie about our elections.

We knew in advance that violence was planned. We knew that that violence needed someone to tell the lie.

I`m hiding in this bathroom, hearing these yells of these men -- or just a man, just one man, going: 'Where is she? Where is she?'

I felt that if this was the journey that my life was taking, that I felt that things were going to be ok. And that, you know, I had fulfilled my purpose.

I just felt like I`m not going there. Like, there were members who were live tweeting the location of the speaker that were probably going to be in that extraction point.

I just hope I get to be a mom. I hope I don`t die today.

There are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence. There’s no consequences for racism, no consequences for misogyny, no consequences for insurrection. And no consequences mean that they condone it. It means that that silence…

Kevin McCarthy answers to these QAnon members of Congress, not the other way around.

I’m happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered three weeks ago, so you can sit this one out.

When I hear that Representative McCarthy is going to pull a member aside who has made white supremacist sympathizing comments, the thing that I think is what is he going to tell them? Keep it up? Because there are no consequences in the…

In the House Republican Caucus, Kevin McCarthy answers to these QAnon members of Congress, not the other way around. This is extremely dangerous, an extremely dangerous threshold that we have crossed, because we are now away from acting…

Kevin McCarthy answers to these QAnon members of Congress, not the other way around.

There are legitimate white supremacist sympathizers that sit at the heart and at the core of the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives.

Republicans have backed themselves into a corner because they have dug themselves into the hole of climate denial and climate delay for decades now.

I think I truly believe that the politics around climate has changed.

Yes. I mean, climate has become a winning issue.

Now, I`m feeling extraordinarily encouraged. And I think that the significance of President Biden`s executive orders communicates a lot.

There were QAnon and white supremacist sympathizers and, frankly, white supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point, who I know and who I have felt would disclose my location, and allow me to -- who would create opportunities…

And, frankly, you know, if they find more sympathy with them, then perhaps they shouldn't be serving in the United States congress.

And frankly, you know, to see that there were members of Congress cheering them on, calling them, you know, their people, their constituents, it -- you know, there is a resolution that has already been drafted.

It's truly -- it's not just a betrayal but it's also just simply embarrassing that you have members that don't even have scientific competency writing policy and responsible for the lives of other people.

And I can also say I was not the only member of Congress that felt that way. You know, not every member was in that secure room. And even for members who were in that secure room we have now seen several who have come down with COVID.

What's so scary in a situation like that is that you don't know even if a person is in uniform whether they are there to hurt or to help.