“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. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.”

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About Julian Castro

American lawyer and politician

Julián Castro is an American lawyer and politician from San Antonio, Texas. A Democrat, he served as the 16th United States secretary of housing and urban development from 2014 to 2017, and was the youngest member of President Obama’s cabinet. He has 85 quotes on the site. Before joining the cabinet, Castro was mayor of San Antonio from 2009 to 2014. His public work has centered on city government and federal housing policy, placing him in the practical, policy-driven side of American politics.

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