Vazquez Mota Quotes

#1. One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#2. I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#3. How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?

Richard Twiss

#4. I've always put myself intensely into my work.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#5. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.

Beth Revis

#6. Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.

Wilma Mankiller

#7. Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#8. We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#9. Courage is not a matter of gender.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#10. Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#11. I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work.

Sheldon Harnick

#12. I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#13. The tide is coming in," he said. "The ocean has reached this little pool. There will be turbulence, and confusion, and ruin. This is what happens when something small joins something vast.

Seth Dickinson

#14. I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#15. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#16. There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#17. There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#18. The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

Joseph Stiglitz

#19. After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.

Amy Rankin

#20. Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet?

Jack Kerouac

#21. Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#22. I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#23. We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#24. In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#25. I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.

Yoko Ono

#26. I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#27. You are what you think about all day long.

Robert H. Schuller

#28. Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#29. On the third day, it hit me what he was doing. He was taking his time. Allowing me to chat with townsfolk, window shop, smell the flowers, taste the foods and drink in the landscape. He was giving me his world.

Kristen Ashley

#30. You are so great, and I am so small,
I hardly can think of you, World, at all

William Brighty Rands

#31. I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate ... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

Josefina Vazquez Mota