Jorge Ramos Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

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

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

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

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

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#13. 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.

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

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

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

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#17. Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

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#18. I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.

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#19. 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.

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

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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