Vicente Fox Quotes

#1. [L]ook at it from Vicente Fox's point of view. I mean if - if you had a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?

Rush Limbaugh

#2. I saw Vicente Fox use the word that he used. I can only tell you, if I would have used even half of that word, it would have been national scandal. This guy used a filthy, disgusting word on television, and he should be ashamed of himself, and he should apologize, OK?

Donald Trump

#3. At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

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#4. Every idea has its time.

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#5. We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

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#6. We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

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#7. We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

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#8. Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

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#9. We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

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#10. I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

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#11. Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

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#12. I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

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#13. As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

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#14. The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

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#15. We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.

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#16. If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

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#17. No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

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#18. 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.

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#19. What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

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#20. We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.

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#21. Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

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#22. President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.

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#23. I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

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#24. I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

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#25. Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

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#26. I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

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#27. Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

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#28. Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

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#29. 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.

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#30. On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

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#31. There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

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#32. I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

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#33. The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

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#34. We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

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#35. By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

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#36. What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

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#37. The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.

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#38. Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

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#39. When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world. Humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense.

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#40. Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

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#41. And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

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#42. Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

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#43. Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

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#44. Mexico extends beyond its borders.

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#45. I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

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#46. The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

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#47. Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

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#48. You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

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#49. There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

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#50. So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

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#51. Let me tell you that I love the United States.

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#52. Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

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#53. First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

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#54. To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

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