Joseph Robinette Biden

“ But I — the point I keep making, to remind people — and people understand it, and the recent polling nationwide shows they understand it — is that 24 out of every 100 kids in grade school right now is Latino or Hispanic. The idea that we’re not going to invest in what will be roughly 25 percent of the population by the time these kids are in our positions, it’s just absolutely — it makes no sense. ”

“ We’re going to talk about everything today, my guess is, from immigration to the — my Jobs Plan and what — what — how it worked for you and how it didn’t, what you think we should be doing.
We’re also creating a whole lot of job opportunities in neighborhoods, because for most of the — where I come from and all of you come from — is that it gets down to neighborhoods. It gets down to neighborhoods — whether that grocery store is open, whether that local bank is there, whether the — whether or not you have a barber shop, a beauty shop. ”