Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in ABC This Week interviews during 2019

On Abortion: Hyde amendment about healthcare for poor & women of color

The Hyde amendment isn't about abortion per se. The Hyde amendment is truly about equality of health care and health care access for low-income women and women of color and women that get caught in our incarceration system. The Hyde amendment is about income inequality and it's about women's healthcare in a system of income inequality. We need to repeal it. We're talking about 50, 51 percent of the American public being impacted by the realities of the Hyde amendment. Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview for Congress NY-14 election Jun 16, 2019

On Abortion: Repeal Hyde amendment; it's about inequality

The Hyde amendment isn't about abortion per se. The Hyde amendment is about equality of health care access for low-income women and women of color and women that get caught in our mass incarceration system. So the Hyde amendment is about income inequality. We need to repeal it. This is not in the niche topic of women's issues anymore, this is an American issue. We're talking about 51% of the American public being impacted by the Hyde amendment. Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview for Congress NY-14 election Jun 16, 2019

On Government Reform: Impeachment is now about the rule of law

I think every day that passes the pressure to impeach grows and I think that it's justifiable. The evidence continues to come in and with the president now saying that he is willing to break the law to win re-election, that transcends partisanship, it transcends party lines and this is now about the rule of law in the United States of America. Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview on impeaching Trump Jun 16, 2019

On Jobs: We need to address inequality in pay & parental leave

This is part of an evolution that we've been having as a country. Women have historically been mistreated. We still have a pay gap which is persisted by inequalities in parental leave, the fact that women don't get guaranteed paid leave. I have three staffers that are having children in my first six months of my term and I see how these inequalities pay out. That's why I give all new fathers in my office guaranteed three months paid leave, because those inequalities are very real. Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview for Congress NY-14 election Jun 16, 2019

On Principles & Values: Presidential nominee must fight for transformational change

We have a very real risk of losing the presidency if we do not have a presidential candidate fighting for true transformational change in the lives of working people. If we elect a president that says we're fighting for higher wages but we don't want a $15 minimum wage, fighting for education but we don't to make colleges tuition-free, fighting for women's rights, et cetera, but we don't want to go all the way with that, then I think we have a very real risk of losing the presidency. Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview for Congress NY-14 election Jun 16, 2019

On Tax Reform: Workers & government should not pay for billionaires

Whether Jeff Bezos is a billionaire or not is less of my concern than if your average Amazon worker is making a living wage, if they have guaranteed health care and can send their kids to college tuition-free. If that's the case and Bezos is a billionaire, that's one thing. But if his being a billionaire is predicated on paying people starvation wages and stripping their ability to access health care, and on the fact that his workers take food stamps, I'm paying for him to be a billionaire. Source: ABC This Week 2019 interview for Congress NY-14 election Jun 16, 2019

The above quotations are from ABC This Week interviews during 2019 (Martha Raddatz interviewing candidates for 2019-2020 races). Click here for other excerpts from ABC This Week interviews during 2019 (Martha Raddatz interviewing candidates for 2019-2020 races). Click here for other excerpts by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Click here for a profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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