Mexico Quotes - Page 2

It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.

Roger Mahony

Hard Work, America, Blame

"Perspective: Ours is a nation that should know better". staugustine.com. June 04, 2005.

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This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

Daniel Yergin

War, Loss, Aggravation

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Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.

Greg Walden

Stars, Opportunity, Training

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I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

William Weld

Thinking, Issues, People

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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

William H. Seward

Europe, Slavery, France

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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Found, Parts Of Life, Humans

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The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Jobs, Cities, Construction

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It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

Natalie Gulbis

Years, Play, Next Year

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Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Circles, Mexican, United States

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We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Emperor Norton

Leader, Catholic, Church

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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

Jerry Brown

Names, Pesticides, Buying

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As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

Rick Renzi

Summer, America, Energy

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Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

Alex Cox

Japan, Film, Yeah

"Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies". Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.

Paul Cellucci

America, Energy, Growing

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I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.

Columba Bush

Years, Three, Geek

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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

Vicente Fox

Believe, Technological Development, Oil

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Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

Stephen Ambrose

Texas, California, Would Be

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During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Lakes, Valleys, Periods

Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.45

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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Salma Hayek

Listening, Records, Littles

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The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

Heather Wilson

Needs, Growing, Care

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Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

Stephen F. Lynch

Mexican, Democracy, Amnesty International

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On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

Ric Keller

Journey, California, Coyotes

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We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.

Martin Milner

Alaska, Russia, World

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The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Journey, June, May

Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.11

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Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

Janet Napolitano

People, Community, Borders

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