Mexico Quotes

• In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

  Len Deighton

  Funny, Air, Lenses

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• When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Country, Teenager, Video

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

  Campbell Scott

  Crazy, Years, Interesting

  "Campbell Scott on going Off the Map". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 10, 2005.

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• I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

  Herb Alpert

  Taken, Sound, Spirit

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• What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

  Alice Cooper

  Golf, Play, Scotland

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• The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Rocks, Sea, Levels

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.27

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• It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

  Elton Gallegly

  Government, Mexican, Immigration

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• We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Real, Letters, States

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.19

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• A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

  John Shadegg

  Home, Guests, Program

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• The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Drug, United States, Crime

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• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  John Shadegg

  Home, United States, Citizens

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• A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Country, Tree, Different

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• Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Real, Wages

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• Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Organization, Benefits

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• 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.

  Vicente Fox

  Change, Country, Loser

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• 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.

  Vicente Fox

  Government, Average, Years

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• A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

  Katherine Dunham

  Art, Garden, Dancer

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• A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.

  Bobby Flay

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

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• Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Germany, Filmmaker, Sweepers

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• There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Smart, Mean

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• We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

  Pete Domenici

  Fall, Cracks, Want

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• By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

  Spencer Bachus

  Home, Borders, Citizens

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• Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

  William Faulkner

  Tennessee, Memphis, Hotel

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.11, Modern Library

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• Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

  Joe Baca

  Country, War, Fighting

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• Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

  Anthony Quinn

  Railroads, West Coast, Down And

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