“There could be some negatives over time. It's a high-wire act and no American city lately has absorbed anywhere near this number of people so quickly,”
“You're coming into a state that has a deserved reputation for being low-tax and low-service. If you try to be generous to your new residents, some of the poor folks here are going to notice and are going to start raising Cain.”
“It's good politics to shift the spotlight over to victims, with you holding the light, ... There's some possibility fortunes may be shifting, and political leaders might get blamed for that. We don't know how this is going to play out in the next month.”
“He got a fair amount of what he asked for out of this session. He'll be able to take the tax cut and wave it across Iowa and New Hampshire in Steve Forbes' face.”
“A Hispanic candidate like Sanchez has to work much harder than Lee Brown does. Lee Brown will have 97 percent of the Black voters behind him. He just has to turn them out.”
“They are working extremely long hours often. They really don't have much time for politics in this culture. You can't win by mobilizing Hispanics in Houston yet, but they are, year by year, becoming a more significant voting block in this city.”