Jorge Ramos Quotes

Jorge Ramos

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 16, 1958

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

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

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

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

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

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

My only weapon is the question.

Jorge Ramos

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.

Jorge Ramos

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.

Jorge Ramos

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.

Jorge Ramos

When you talk to a Latin American president, they make you feel so tiny right from the beginning, right from the moment when they shake your hands.

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

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.

Jorge Ramos

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

Jorge Ramos

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

Jorge Ramos

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.

Jorge Ramos

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

Jorge Ramos

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.

Jorge Ramos

Young Latinos have been telling me that they want to register to vote because of Donald Trump. Not because they want to vote for him but because they want to vote against him.

Jorge Ramos

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.

Jorge Ramos