Mexican Quotes - Page 3

• The Mexican government understands that when you turn 65, your ability to earn money diminishes. They don't want you kicked out of your house that you've worked your whole life for, no matter what that house is.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, House, Want

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn 65, your property taxes are cut in half.

  Jesse Ventura

  Beach, Cutting, Citizens

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The Donald Trump who showed up at this press conference, though he did extend his hand to President Pena Nieto, say, I consider you a friend, he said he talked about first-generation, second-
  generation, third-generation Mexican-American, he said - his words here - he considers them beyond reproach.

  Steve Kornacki

  Hands, President, Firsts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Donald] Trump met with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, who has in the past compared Trump`s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

  Steve Kornacki

  Past, President, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, War, Fighter

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• I happen to have a tremendous feeling for Mexican-Americans, not only in terms of friendships but in terms of the tremendous numbers that I employ in the United States. And they are amazing people, amazing people.

  Donald Trump

  Numbers, People, Feelings

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

  Adrian Younge

  Hero, Kids, People

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I think it's an important thing for a Mexican to say, especially now with the rebellion in Chiapas. Mexico has to confront her Indian face, and yet she refuses to do so. When you turn on Mexican television, it's like watching Swedish TV: everyone is blond.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Thinking, Important, Faces

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The Indian had been killed in cowboy movies, or was playing bingo in Oklahoma. Also, in my middle-class Mexican family indio was a bad word, one my parents shy away from to this day. That's one of the reasons, of course, why I always insist, in my bratty way, on saying, Soy indio! - "I am an Indian!"

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cowboy, Class, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"

  Sandra Cisneros

  Spiritual, Hero, Intelligent

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit First Amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.

  Mitt Romney

  Cheer, Children, Limits

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In terms of my own plans, I anticipate supporting one of the three, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich as our nominee. If they don't become the nominee, then I'm probably going to go to the voting booth and find someone else who's running as a conservative or perhaps just write in the name of someone I believe should become the president of the United States, who I could be proud of and who I believe is interested in balancing the budget, keeping America safe with a strong military, and is not willing to disparage fellow Americans, Mexican-Americans, Muslims, and so forth.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Strong, Military

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I have great relationships with the Mexican people. You've been seeing I'm winning every single poll in these primaries when they go out, when the polls come back in with the Hispanics. I have thousands of Hispanics that work for me and over the years tens of thousands that have worked for me over the years. I will tell you that the problem our country has is that our leaders are so weak - we have so many ways of getting the money to build the wall.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Wall, Winning

  "The 9 toughest media interviews for Donald Trump". Interview with Bob Woodward, "Bob Woodward presses Trump on Mexico paying for border wall" (March 9, 20016), www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2016.

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• And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Home, Garden, United States

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• When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Encounters, Definitions, Chaos

  Source: variety.com

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• True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.

  Mark Hoppus

  Son, Wife, Blink 182

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Real, Believe, Average

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• That has always been the underpinning of his [Donald Trump's] policy along with the building of the wall on the United States-Mexican border. And those things have remained completely consistent.

  Chris Christie

  Wall, Mexican Border, United States

  "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• Family is something that I grew up with, and the Mexican culture has a lot of, you know - Sunday is the day you spend with your family, and you have 40 to 50 people at your house, the uncles and the cousins, and I grew up with that.

  Karla Souza

  Cousin, Uncles, Sunday

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you're Mexican, and even then it's something of a love/hate relationship.

  Devendra Banhart

  Hate, Thinking, Mexico

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind the tape. John claims that here he told the guards that he could not speak English and when that failed to persuade them, he fa...ked a violent seizure. I am unclear as to the purpose of this part of his plan. John flung himself down and began rolling around in the snow, thrashing his limbs about and screaming “EL SEIZURE!!! NO ES BUENO!!!” in a Mexican accent.

  David Wong

  Elderly, Security Guards, Speak English

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.408, Titan Books

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• Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.

  Simone Elkeles

  Food, Thinking, People

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Rules of Attraction”, p.166, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Yes, Horus said. I remember this place. It’s El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you’ve never been here.

  Rick Riordan

  Remember, Said, Horus

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• In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

  Michael Lewis

  California, House, Income

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love Is, Thinking, Uzbekistan

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