I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.