Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like... they'll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.

Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.