Mexico Quotes - Page 4

• I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

  Janet Napolitano

  Long, United States, Would Be

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• Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Reform, Needs, Welfare

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• Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

  Mark Twain

  Rivers, Water, Add

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• Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion.

  Conan O'Brien

  Holiday, Epcot, Mexican

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• I was born in Mexico, I grew up in Mexico, and along the way, I learned to love Mexico. I think anyone who has stepped foot on this land - not to mention all Mexican people - will agree that its not difficult to love Mexico.

  Emiliano Salinas

  Thinking, Land, Feet

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• Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States.

  Donald Trump

  United States, Dollars, Illegal

  "Donald Trump Releases Immigration Reform Plan Designed To Get Americans Back To Work" by Matthew Boyle, www.breitbart.com. August 16, 2015.

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• Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Believe, Order, World

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• I think it's about time we legalize marijuana... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little game we are playing in the middle is not helping us, it is not helping Mexico and it is causing massive violence on our southern border... Fifty percent of the money going to these cartels is coming just from marijuana coming across our border.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Marijuana, Games

  "Glenn Beck Calls for the Repeal of Federal Drug Prohibition" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. May 21, 2015.

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• When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

  Sylvia Earle

  Blue, Sea, People

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• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  Val Kilmer

  Father, Mountain, Dollars

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• I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mother, Running, Daughter

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• In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.

  Susana Martinez

  Together, Legislature, States

  "Paul Ryan Speaks at Republican National Convention". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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• According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moving, Numbers, Adults

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• My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Mother, War, Doors

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.33, Penguin

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• This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

  Richard Brautigan

  Country, Morning, Ocean

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here's what I was thinking about:1.Who the new threat was 2.The air show in Mexico City 3.How to get Total to quit milking his injury, because enough was enough 4. My mom and Half sister Ella 5.Fang 6.Fang 7.Fang

  James Patterson

  Mom, Thinking, Air

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• In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.

  Francesca Lia Block

  People, Amulets, Necks

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Missing Angel Juan”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Humble, Rocks

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• Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dog, Prayer, Children

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• I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin. Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Drinking, Swimming, Kissing

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• And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

  Tim Wise

  Song, Fighting, Winning

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• I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Children, Nice

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• Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

  Libba Bray

  Grateful, People, Missing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

  Edward Abbey

  New York, Heart, Virginia

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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