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" As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say. "
Say
Line
Challenge
" Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back. "
You
Back
Happiness
" Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms. "
Me
Say
People
" I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question. "
Like
Put
Question
" I don't think I win most interviews. For instance, with Fidel Castro, I only spoke with him one minute and three seconds. But I think he won because I couldn't get anything from him. With the former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, it happened exactly the same thing. "
President
Him
Think
" I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington. "
Tough
Think
Time
" I go out on publicity tours for my books, and, you know, Latinos, they bring everybody in the family to everything, even little kids. So I always ask the kids, 'Who wants to be the first Latino President?' It used to be no hands went up, or maybe one or two. Now, with Obama, many of the little hands go up. It will happen in my lifetime. "
Always
You
Now
" I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions. "
Asking
Simple
Just
" Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there's no question about it. And it's very simple to understand why - half of all Latinos over 18 years of age were born outside the United States. It really makes no sense to attack them and criticize them if you want their vote. "
Why
Age
Immigration
" I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions. "
Power
Tough
American
" I sent Trump a handwritten note requesting an interview with my cell-phone number in it. That was a huge mistake. You should never, ever give your cell-phone number to Donald Trump. You know what he did with it? He put it on the Internet. "
Internet
Mistake
Know
" I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power. "
I Think
Keep
Power
" It's a privilege to work as an anchor for Univision, but more important, I am amazed by how Latinos are transforming America. "
Work
America
Anchor
" I will go to a nice restaurant in Miami, and no one sitting at the tables will notice me or even know who I am. Then everyone in the kitchen comes out and wants to take a picture. "
Kitchen
Picture
Nice
" Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848. "
Accept
Remember
Will
" My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made. "
Journalism
You
Dream
" My only weapon is the question. "
Only
Weapon
Question
" Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice. "
You
Football
Voice
" Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one. "
Never Forget
You
Forget
" Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person. "
Last
You
Time
" The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set. "
TV
Front
Future
" The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power. "
You
See
Say
" The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that. "
Power
Believe
Responsibility
" The new rule in American politics is that no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote. "
Vote
American
Hispanic
" There's a huge migration of eyeballs from television screens to cellphones, tablets, and laptops. More and more people prefer to watch their favorite shows at a time and a place of their own choosing. Appointment TV only happens when you are waiting for the doctor. "
Time
Waiting
Doctor
" There used to be a tradition within the Hispanic community that, regardless of your political party, you would support undocumented immigrants. That ended with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. "
You
Support
Political
" The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression. "
Freedom
Country
Me
" Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views demonstrate a deep ignorance about Mexican immigrants in the United States. "
Facts
Ignorance
Deep
" Trump seems to think he can win the White House with only the white vote. I believe that the only way to win the White House is with the Latino vote. If the Republican candidate cannot get 33 percent of it, he cannot win the White House. "
Win
Vote
Think
" We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and then forgetting about it after the campaigns are over. "
Community
Forgetting
Hispanic
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