Latest Julian Castro Quotes from Interviews

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• Donald Trump is just unfit, unprepared, just doesn't get it, shouldn't be the commander in chief of America.

  Julian Castro

  America, Trump, Chiefs

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

  Julian Castro

  Zero, War, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.

  Julian Castro

  Thinking, Community, Presidential

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There's always a little bit of disappointment. At the same time, number one, [Hillary Clinton] made a great choice. Secondly, I'm 41. And so I feel like - that I'm excited about the years to come.

  Julian Castro

  Disappointment, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.npr.org

• Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president.

  Julian Castro

  Choices, President, Vices

  "Julian Castro On Obama's Legacy, Latino Voter Turnout". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 27, 2016.

• It's going to be difficult for [Donald] Trump to overcome the deep first impression that he gave to the Latino community with his comments right out of the gate about Mexican immigrants, with his comments about Judge Curiel.

  Julian Castro

  Judging, Mexican, Community

  Source: www.npr.org

• I cannot imagine a scenario where Donald Trump does better than Mitt Romney with the Hispanic vote.

  Julian Castro

  Doe, Vote, Imagine

  Source: www.npr.org

• So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.

  Julian Castro

  Negative, Campaigns, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

• [People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.

  Julian Castro

  Differences, People, Voting

  Source: www.npr.org

• What I hear from people out there is they always say that [Donald Trump] doesn't like us. And so they're energized.

  Julian Castro

  People, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

• In my mind, there's no question that Donald Trump has energized the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate. Unfortunately for him, he's done that in a negative way.

  Julian Castro

  Community, Presidential, Mind

  Source: www.npr.org

• To the parents, basically, of the dreamers, which was DAPA. I understand, of course, the concern that a lot of folks have had with the number of deportations. But there again, I believe that the president [Barack Obama] has made an earnest attempt to address those issues.

  Julian Castro

  Believe, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

• This president [Barack Obama] is someone who has done more to protect and keep together families with DACA and then with DAPA.

  Julian Castro

  President, Together, Done

  Source: www.npr.org

• At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

  Julian Castro

  Class, People, Earning

  "Julian Castro On Obama's Legacy, Latino Voter Turnout". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 27, 2016.

• We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when he got in - you know, we were losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate was skyrocketing. And now it's at under 5 percent, so there is a lot of progress that has happened.

  Julian Castro

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

  Julian Castro

  Thinking, Hands, Concentration Of Wealth

  Source: www.npr.org

• For my daughter, it's going to mean something special that Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination, and I wanted to make sure that she sees that.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Mean, Special

  Source: www.npr.org

• A couple of years ago, my wife, Erica, and I were getting our daughter ready for school and an image of President [Barack] Obama was on one of the morning shows. And I said, oh, look, Carina, there's the president. You can be president one day. And she said, right away, that's for boys. And so right away I said, oh, no, you can be a doctor. You can be a lawyer. You can be anything you want. You can be president.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Morning, Couple

  Source: www.npr.org

• With the opportunity we build today for a shared prosperity tomorrow, America will prevail. It begins with re-electing Barack Obama.

  Julian Castro

  Opportunity, America, Today

  Source: www.npr.org

• Donald Trump ought to realise that being a president is different to being a candidate and that there is a responsibility that comes with the office.

  Julian Castro

  Responsibility, Office, President

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• My hope is Donald Trump will take a longer view and a more unified approach.

  Julian Castro

  Views, Trump, Approach

• My hope is Donald Trump will focus on building bridges instead of walls.

  Julian Castro

  Wall, Bridges, Focus