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Julian Castro DNC speech:
5 Memorable Lines
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro’s keynote speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention might not generate the buzz of President Barack Obama’s 2004 keynote, but it still electrified the Charlotte crowd.
Castro, 37, the youngest mayor of the 50 largest cities in the nation, delivered these notable lines:
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1. “First they called it ‘trickle-down.’ Then ‘supply-side.’ Now it’s ‘Romney-Ryan.’ Or is it ‘Ryan-Romney?’”
2. “Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can’t do alone.”
3. “I don’t think Gov. Romney meant any harm. I think he’s a good guy. He just has no idea how good he’s had it.”
4. “When it comes to expanding access to good health care, Mitt Romney … actually Mitt Romney said, ‘Yes,’ and now he says, ‘No.’”
5. “The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people’s houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.”
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