Julian Castro Quotes

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there - all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.

The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.

You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America's future.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.

There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.

I remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch.

America is Tiger Woods country for a reason, and she elected Barack Obama to punctuate this new reality.

After Trump, it will be a different Republican party... and for American workers, families, and communities, that is fantastic news.

I think, ultimately, the post-Reagan era will end with Scott Walker being elected the 45th President of the United States.

Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.

I momentarily but genuinely believed that Barack Obama was the answer not only to our nation's depressing politics but to the question of our racial enlightenment.

Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey toward democracy in a long time.

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They're giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians.

No candidate can become president without the Latino vote.

I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.

Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for equality.

If we want to get rid of Obamacare, we're going to have to replace President Obama.

I wonder who really is the change candidate? It can't be both of them [Hillary Clinton & Barak Obama]. What would be a black man and a woman - how could that be different than the 43 other Presidents we've had?

We need to unify our party, we need a real Conservative in the White House, and we need to beat Hillary Clinton to take our country back and keep our nation safe.