This is a symbolic closing of the gap that had developed for the last six years under the previous administration.

I think it’s a watershed moment.

[Nor do the nation’s regionally and ethnically diverse Latinos attach themselves to just one party on the issues.] The Hispanic vote is very hard to pigeonhole, … On certain issues, they’re very conservative. On other...

Legal or illegal, advertisers still think they have to buy toothpaste in the morning,

It might give some companies pause about the potential power that exists there. It does show you a market out there.

He was a quiet ground-breaker, … Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.

What the marches have done is give a human face to the immigration issue in the United States today.

That doesn’t surprise me. These are businesses catering to the new ethnic enclaves.

For many years, these undocumented immigrants, as well as individuals who sympathize with the plight of this community, have been very quiet and passive. When you have 100,000 people out in the street, that gives...

These are micro-entrepreneurs. . . . With the economy slowing down, when regular jobs shrink, people turn to starting their own business. I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, but you can’t accept these...

There is also safety in numbers.

Look at the Chicago area. Cook County, Illinois, now has more Latinos than Arizona, New Mexico or Colorado.

It makes sense for them to do this. It’s a demographic imperative that’s happening in the nation. It’s showing that the Hispanic population is developing into a national presence. If it was still regionalised I...

One out of every nine Americans is now Latino. In certain states, Latinos, in the next 20 years, will outnumber the traditional white non-Hispanic population.

There is a lot of overacting on Spanish TV, too, … Maybe that will make the transition easier.

For every 100 Latinos you see walking down the street today, 34 of those 100 are under the age of 18, so they’re not qualified to vote. That leaves 66. Of those 66, in certain...

an unprecedented outreach into the Mexican immigrant community.

He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,

Los Angeles is Los Angeles, and it’s very easy for someone to come here not knowing English and be able to get a toehold on American society.

A lot of Latinos are first-generation new citizens, or second-generation children of immigrants, who don’t have those deep roots of partisan attachment.

Oh my goodness, we’ve heard such horribly accented Spanish in the past six months, I can’t tell you. You kind of wince and you say, ‘OK, let’s get through the Spanish,’ because you know the...

Politics, for most Americans, is not an everyday-life issue. It is not something that affects you personally. That is why these demonstrations are so interesting, because what it shows is that immigration is not an...

Simple demographics. There’s going to be more than five and a half million Latino voters voting in November.