Jason Castro Quotes

Jason Castro gives honest, reassuring thoughts that help calm nerves in awkward talks and big worries.

31 quotes

1. I was thinking Bob Marley! Yeah!

2. Someone told me I shot the tambourine man.

3. I had a dread in my hand at the dinner table and it was...really awkward!

4. I didn't know a cat sang it.

5. I just found out 'ma belle' was French. I thought it was English. My bell.

6. Aries... I always feel like I'm saying that wrong.

7. And talking...I'm not good with talking.

8. I was thinking about it so much, I was freaked out all day!

9. I think arrogant people disappoint me. Nobody has a right to think they are better than anyone else.

10. The fundamentals of my faith tells be that we're all the same... You know, I'm no better, but no worse, than anybody else... I think everybody should just keep that in mind.

11. My biggest fear is wasting my life.

12. Playing shows every night....DUHHHH!

13. In the end, it will all be okay. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

14. To be a loving father, a faithful husband and a servant of all.

15. They'd be retarded.

16. My sister Jacqueline is 12, and Idol is her favorite show. Every week she'd be so nervous for me, even though she loved watching me. She was actually having panic attacks and my family didn't know why, then they realized it was all about the show. She would get so worked up! Now she's breathing better (laughs).

17. On how his younger sister, Jackie, has responded to his newfound fame, Latina Magazine

18. Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

19. I actually believe that one of the lessons of 1993 and 1994, as well as 2009 and 2010, is that when a Democratic president has the opportunity - with a Democratic Congress - that you shouldn't wait to push significant legislation, whether it's health care, immigration reform, other measures.

20. My hope is Donald Trump will take a longer view and a more unified approach.

21. To the parents, basically, of the dreamers, which was DAPA. I understand, of course, the concern that a lot of folks have had with the number of deportations. But there again, I believe that the president [Barack Obama] has made an earnest attempt to address those issues.

22. I believe in the Green New Deal. Fundamentally, what we recognize is that we don't have to choose between protecting our planet and growing our economy and creating jobs and opportunity.

23. Got a call on April 16, 2014 from President Barack Obama - I remember the date because it's not every day that the president calls you and asks you if you want a job.

24. We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when he got in - you know, we were losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate was skyrocketing. And now it's at under 5 percent, so there is a lot of progress that has happened.

25. And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.

26. In the end, 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.

27. To me, what I believe is that everybody should have the ability to enroll in Medicare. If somebody wants a supplemental plan or a private plan, then I believe they should be able to do that as well.

28. I grew up Catholic. The Catholic faith has played an integral role in my life. At the same time, I don't think that there is a single person that doesn't have some disagreements with their faith.

29. Donald Trump ought to realise that being a president is different to being a candidate and that there is a responsibility that comes with the office.

30. [People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.

31. But one of the most enjoyable things for me is that running for office gives you this license to enter the world of somebody else and to hear about the dreams that they have for themselves, for their family, for the country.