Mexico Quotes - Page 12

• I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Giving, May

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• Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Soccer, Team

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• Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Basketball, Team

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• The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.

  Abraham H. Cannon

  Blessing, President, Done

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• Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business.

  Rudy Giuliani

  United States, Ransom, Pay

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

  Anais Nin

  Flower, Sunset, Blood

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• We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

  Andrew Jackson

  Texas, Ifs

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• Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

  Ana Castillo

  Melancholy, Embrace

  Norma Alarcón, Ana Castillo, Cherríe Moraga (1989). “Third Woman”

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• You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.

  Ezra Klein

  Country, Usa, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Frankly, getting Mexico economically headed in the right direction with good energy policy - Canada, the United States, and Mexico have more known energy reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia. So developing those and I think you'll see a major movement of people back into Mexico when that occurs when these prices get back. You're going to see a substantial development of the energy business in Mexico and Canada, domestic as well.

  Rick Perry

  Thinking, Russia, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Mexico is an important trading partner, it's the number one trading partner for the state of Texas. We have had dealings with them, shared a border with them. We have had our challenges, but at the end of the day we want a good relationship with Mexico.

  Rick Perry

  Texas, Numbers, Good Relationship

  "Rick Perry talks immigration reform, fixing the economy". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2015.

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• My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-cratered. Though I was born here, I came from the other side of the looking glass, as did Alice, though not alone like Alice. Downtown I saw lots of brown people. Old men on benches. Winks from Filipinos. Sikhs who worked in the fields were the most mysterious brown men, their heads wrapped in turbans. They were the rose men. They looked like roses.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Glasses, Rose

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin

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• The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Japan, People, Doe

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• I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.

  Aimee Garcia

  Running, Cousin, Home

  "What does it mean to you to be Latino in America?" by Aimee Garcia, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.

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• Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies.

  Peter Jennings

  Support, Flying, Stories

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• I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

  Michael Trevino

  Mother, Father, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents a new political space for our migrants, an opportunity to bridge the gap between two societies, those living in Mexico and those living abroad.

  Ruben Aguilar

  Opportunity, Bridges, Two

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• In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?

  Isabel Fonseca

  Children, Military, Past

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• From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.

  Biloine W. Young

  Air, Mexican, Giants

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• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  Vicente Fox

  Population, Different, Income

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• I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.

  Ali MacGraw

  New York, Santa Fe, California

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• Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

  Adam Duritz

  Girl, Bottles, Littles

  "Song: 'Holiday in Spain'". 2002.

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• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, America, Black

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Hard Work, Grandmother, Intelligent

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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