Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.
Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.
I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.
I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.
I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.
We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.
I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.
I remember reading about police arresting this filmmaker making this freaky movie and his name was John Waters. And I was like, wow, someone in Baltimore is doing something creative? I didn't know there were people running off and making eight-millimeter movies. Then I got to New York and realized, oh, there's a whole world of people who do these things. I was utterly bored being in the suburbs, but I didn't know why I was bored.