“The other day I went to a fast food [restaurant].”
“The
person who was waiting on me didn’t speak English. I had to go through a long
process of trying to order something. Then I got a bag, and instead of having
English on it, it had Spanish and German and every other [language].”
“I think
it’s about time we started thinking about the people who are coming into our
country, learn what English is all about.”
“I don’t want to adjust to another
language. This is the United States. I think they ought to adjust to us.”
“Now
I’m not going back to that McDonald’s again, because I didn’t like the fact that
I couldn’t get an order to them, what I wanted. Second of all, reading the bag
that has every language on there except English, that’s not right.”
“We need
to stop talking about it. We’re such a great country, we don’t think we should
do anything like that. We should emphasize English, and we should. The people
who come here should become part of American (sic), Americanized and speak the
language.”
“Now that’s just my opinion. Of course I’ll most likely lose all
the Latin votes and all the other votes. But it is just not right. It is not
right.”
“I went today, the same thing, only there was a lady from a different
country. And one of our, one of our American citizens? I gave my order to the new
girl. Nice little girl. She was very accommodating. The little girl beside her
had to take the order. People are wondering, ‘What the heck is this?’ The
schools should say, ‘English first, then Spanish,’ or whatever language they
are. Again, I guess I’ll lose the Italian vote.”