“I’m very worried about where we’re headed as a party. I don’t think this is the way to get the Latino vote. If we do not reject this way of thinking clearly, without any ambiguity, we will have lost our way. If we don’t reject it, we’ve lost the moral authority, in my view, to govern this country.”
- July 12, 2015

And I’m a Republican and he is not. He not a conservative Republican he is an opportunist. He could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and 25-to-30 percent people would still follow him because he gives voice to their anger and their frustration. But he is not fit to be president of the United States. Anybody Republican who would accuses George W. Bush of lying to the American people about the Iraq War and he is responsible for 9/11 is not a Republican. They are an extremist. They are crazy…

“He accused most illegal of being rapists and drug dealers. He plays into the idea that maybe Obama is a Muslim… We believe he’s unfit for office. He doesn’t have the temperament or judgement.”
- Feb 17, 2016

“Donald Trump is not the first person in American political history or politics in general to prey on people’s fear. There’s a market out there for send them all back, stop the Chinese from taking our jobs, and don’t be Barack Obama. What he’s got going for him, he’s the anti-Obama in every way in the minds of these people…

“Here’s what I said after the Megyn Kelly episode. It’s better to risk losing without him than try to win with him. When he said most illegal immigrants are rapists and drug dealers, they’re not sending our best, he took our problems in 2012 with Hispanics and made them far worse by espousing forced deportation. Looking back, we should have basically kicked him out of the party, because that kind of rhetoric…

“The more you know about Donald Trump, the less likely you are to vote for him. The more you know about his business enterprises, the less successful he looks. The more you know about his political giving, the less Republican he looks. We should have done this months ago…

“And when he said, ‘Let’s ban all Muslims from coming into our country,’ that’s the one that got me. You know, why? Because if you want to win the war on radical — against radical Islam, you need people within the faith. Ninety-nine percent of them reject radical Islam. But what Donald Trump did is he took a whole group of people and put them in one category. The very people we need to partner with, he’s excluded from our country. So that shows me he doesn’t understand the war…

“And the one that got me is the military guys, when he said he would order our soldiers to kill innocent children, civilian noncombatants…

“When you add it all up, you ask me what gets me going with Donald Trump? He doesn’t represent conservatism, doesn’t understand the war. He would be an unfit commander in chief, in my opinion, based on his temperament and his policy choices. And he would destroy the Republican Party’s ability to grow over time.
- March 7, 2016

“Economic populism, xenophobia, race-baiting, and religious bigotry are the stool that he has formed. That is his campaign. That is not conservatism…

“Here is why we’re losing the Hispanic vote. Nobody is going to listen to you about your economic plan or your ability to defend the nation if you’re going to deport their grandmother. I’m in the party of family values. And I like that. There are 11 million illegal immigrants; 60 percent have been here a decade. Many of them have American children, American citizen children and grandchildren. What do you think is going to happen to my Republican friends if our position is that we’re going to take the grandmother of an American citizen, member of the military who is illegal? How do we get that person to vote for us if we’re going to deport their grandmother, when all she’s done is violate the immigration laws? This is why we’re getting killed with Hispanics. And Mr. Trump has taken every problem we have had with Hispanics and poured gasoline on it…

“I can understand being frustrated with illegal immigration. But you’re not going to fix it by having a position like Mr. Trump that has no chance of getting through the Senate…

“We’re about to nominate the one person that not only would lose in 2016, but would destroy the party for decades to come. I would rather lose without Trump than try to win with him…

“I think Mr. Trump destroys the party that I love… Mr. Trump is an interloper and what — a demagogue of the greatest proportion…

“We can lose an election, but I don’t want us to lose our heart and soul. If we nominate Donald Trump, and he carries the banner of the Republican Party, given who he is and what he said about immigrants, about Muslims and young women, we will not just lose the election. We have lost the heart and soul of the conservative movement. That’s what is at stake…

“How do you bring the broken and divided country together? Is Mr. Trump the answer to the problems in the Mideast? His foreign policy is gibberish. The Mideast is a mess. The Republican Party is at a tipping point here. We’re going down one of two roads, the Trump road, which is the destruction of conservatism.”
- March 20, 2016

“Quite frankly, he lost me when he said my friend John McCain was a loser because he was captured as a POW. He lost me when he accused George W. Bush of lying to the American people about the Iraq War, and he thinks Putin’s a good guy, so, I just can’t go there…

“I’ve just got a hard time supporting somebody who claims that Ted Cruz’s dad was associated with Lee Harvey Oswald and involved in the Kennedy assassination. I’ve got a hard time supporting somebody for president who spent thousands of dollars of their own money trying to find out if President Obama was born in Kenya versus Hawaii. I think that’s crazy. I’m just glad we’re having the convention in Cleveland, not Area 51. I think Donald Trump has gone to places where very few people have gone, and I’m not going with him…

“I just believe his temperament and judgment is not sufficient to be commander in chief of the finest fighting force in the world. I think his foreign policy is gibberish…

“I just really do not believe that Donald Trump has the temperament and judgment to be commander in chief…

“Eating a taco is probably not going to fix the problems that we have with Hispanics. I think embracing Donald Trump is embracing demographic death…

“I just can’t go where Donald Trump takes the party and the country. I’m sorry I can’t.”
- May 6, 2016

“To the Hispanic community, I get it why you don’t like us. I mean, who’s going to vote for somebody that’s gonna deport their grandmother?… We’re in a ditch, and I don’t know if we’ll ever get out of the ditch.”
- May 10, 2016