“What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexi...” — Alma Guillermoprieto Quote

“What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?”

“So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.”

“I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.”

“I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.”

“I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.”

“I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.”