If we want to protect our status as (the best) place in the United States to be educated, to work and to enjoy life, there are some things we need to get serious about. Infrastructure challenges are way up there. We can't continue to live off the past in terms of upgrading this great state.

That means we have reached the people of the United States. What we need to do now is reach the administration. The people are there, and they understand how important this area is. It's just the priorities of the administration are somewhere else.

The problem is that remittances [from the United States] have made Salvadorans comfortable, and they don't want to work cutting cane.

The Government considers it a very important object to introduce among the several Indian Nations within the United States the arts of civilization--to induce the men to engage in agriculture and the raising of stock, and to convince the women of the benefits they would derive from a knowledge of the domestic arts and manufactures.

We work hand in hand with the United States Postal Service.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.