Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

I stand with the working-class citizens.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.

To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.

The working class who toil everyday to pay their rent and put food on their families' tables are tired of being lectured by the fat cats in Washington and Brussels who preach what we need and when we need it.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.