Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.

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

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.

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.

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

The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.