I supported the stimulus package.

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.

The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.

We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.

I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.

Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to leap forward. Listen to the wrong myths, and we might even go back a few steps.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.