Harry Pachon Quotations

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

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

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

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 candidate is really trying to say something to Latinos.

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

an unprecedented outreach into the Mexican immigrant community.

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

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 academic issue; it is a genuine issue on the Hispanic immigrant side. You are talking about your friends, relatives, neighbors.

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

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 uncritically.