“It depends on the kind of mood that they are in. For example, there are areas where I thought that we would be able to cooperate where things have not occurred. I thought that we would be able to cooperate on infrastructure, for example, and criminal justice, and that has not occurred anywhere to th…”— Joaquin Castro, harvardpolitics.com
“Any time you have divided government—if you have a Congress of one party and a president of the other party, or a split Congress and a president of one of the other parties—it is tough. But you try to pass the legislation that is important to you and try to negotiate with the Senate, in the scenario…”— Joaquin Castro, harvardpolitics.com