Mexico Quotes - Page 19

• If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition.

  Mo Udall

  Running, Fighting, Ifs

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• I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?

  Rick Perry

  Hate, Moving, Mean

  "This Week" with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. July 6, 2014.

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• Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

  Howard Dean

  New York, Oklahoma, Texas

  Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.

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• I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

  Paulina Rubio

  Cities, Born, Mexico City

  "Paulina Rubio beauty without borders". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

  Carlos Slim

  Mother, Father, Years

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• I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Yugoslavia, Issues

  The Daily of the University of Washington Newspaper, May 5, 1989.

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• I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.

  John Hickenlooper

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  "Hickenlooper Haunted By ‘Backward-Thinking’ Comment". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

  Ariel Pink

  Iphone, Giving, Trying

  Song: Picture Me Gone, Album: Pom Pom, 2014

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• In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Attention

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• Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Long, Keystone Pipeline

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• Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.

  Victoria Finlay

  Children, Loss, Caring

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.152, Ballantine Books

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• Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.

  Bette Ford

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.

  Emily Rios

  Race, People, Grew

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• To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

  Jay Leno

  Your Side, Ideas, Giving

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• In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.

  George Will

  Struggle, Government, Iraq

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• The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

  Diane Wilson

  Feminist, Movement, Made

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.

  Charles Bowden

  Oil, Mexican, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that we've punched a hole in the planet and it's spilling out oil and destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the ecosystem and seabirds and every creature.

  Mirah

  Ecosystems, Oil, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Earthquakes, Cities, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.

  Sarah Stillman

  Thinking, Way, Problem

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Ocean, Islands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years. The prostitutes and their world have been the main subjects of my photographs.

  Maya Goded

  Years, Cities, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have had the opportunity to meet men and women working in the sex trade in my travels to Mexico's northern and southern borders.

  Maya Goded

  Sex, Opportunity, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

  Michael Glawogger

  Struggle, Squares, Hands

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• Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.

  Paul Bloom

  Jobs, America, President

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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