Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

You can't win an election with money alone.

This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

Political action committees first and foremost want winners. They're not sentimentalists. They're not theorists. They're not philosophers.... They want to buy a piece of a winner.

In order to survive politically, you've got to have a big-buck fundraiser at least one a year.

Money does not always win elections. Usually it does however.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

That's, quite frankly, one of the reasons that President Trump was so popular on the campaign trail and that he won, quite frankly, is because he was kind of stating the obvious.

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.