Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

The poor don't vote all the time.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't really matter to the politicians whether or not we have them. We're just another demographic to try and please, but there's no point if we aren't voting.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

The danger of democracy has always been the danger of an electorate seized by passivity.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.... By the turn of the century it'll be a 95 percent white Republican Party and a 99 percent black Democratic Party. That's not what we need.