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Jorge Ramos Quotes

When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.

– Jorge Ramos

My only weapon is the question.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

The new rule in American politics is that no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote.

– Jorge Ramos

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

– Jorge Ramos

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.

– Jorge Ramos

I don’t think we’ve asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

– Jorge Ramos

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

– Jorge Ramos

We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.

– Jorge Ramos

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality. That’s what I’m trying to do with immigration. If what the founding fathers said is true, that we are all equal, then let’s fight for that.

– Jorge Ramos

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

– Jorge Ramos

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

– Jorge Ramos

You wouldn’t expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision, it’s different. We are pro-immigrant. That’s our audience, and people depend on us. When we are better represented politically, that role for us will recede.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

– Jorge Ramos

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.

– Jorge Ramos

It’s a privilege to work as an anchor for Univision, but more important, I am amazed by how Latinos are transforming America.

– Jorge Ramos

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

– Jorge Ramos