Mexico Quotes - Page 23

• How do you reconcile the lifestyle between the United States and Mexico? One is a very prosperous country, the other one is somewhat backwards. I mean, I don't want to denigrate them. And people want to go from Mexico into the US because it's much better there. Mexicans also have a grudge against the US. Most of the Western US was Mexican territory once, but they prefer to being in the US, not Mexico.

  Moshe Arens

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Wish, Massachusetts

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.92, Xist Publishing

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• In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

  Willa Cather

  Love, Sweet, Children

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.293, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we ate it.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Rattlesnakes, Ran

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• If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition.

  Mo Udall

  Running, Fighting, Ifs

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• There are five different ways you can do it. You can do it through not giving them the subsidy that we pay them. You know, we pay Mexico a subsidy. I don't know if you know. But the whole thing is ridiculous. We're paying everybody subsidy. We actually have a small portion of China where they get a subsidy from us because they haven't ended it for years.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Giving, Subsidies

  "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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• I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?

  Rick Perry

  Hate, Moving, Mean

  "This Week" with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. July 6, 2014.

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• Mexico is not going to build it [a wall], we're going to build it. And it's going to be a serious wall. It's not going to be a toy wall like we have right now where cars and trucks drive over it loaded up with drugs and they sell the drugs in our country and then they go back and, you know, we get the drugs, they get the cash, okay, and that's not going to happen.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Wall, Car

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• They say there are something like 12 million illegal immigrants in the country right now, with another half a million coming every year. Remember in the last election when the Democrats claimed there was two Americas? Turns out one of them was Mexico.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Years, Two

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• Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.

  Paul Bloom

  Jobs, America, President

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of the wall is the enemy. Are we looking at Mexico as the enemy? No, it's not. These are our trading partners.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Wall, Enemy, Berlin

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• I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.

  Emily Rios

  Race, People, Grew

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• I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Four, Made, Latino

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• Mexico will not be taking advantage of us. They will not be having open borders.

  Donald Trump

  Borders, Advantage, Taking Advantage

  Speech at the South Carolina Freedom Summit at the Peace Center in Greenville, www.c-span.org. May 9, 2015.

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• I'm not going to work so that Pena Nieto is the best known or most recognized in the world. I'm going to work so that Mexico has results.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  World, Results, Going To Work

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• Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, Dirty, Thinking

  "Larry Summers’ War Against the Earth" by Jim Vallette, www.counterpunch.org. June 15, 1999.

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• The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados - we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Land, Roots, White

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• I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that used to be devoted to agriculture that are now devoted to poppies. They say you can't get in there because they're guarded, first by the cartels, but also by the army, which goes hand in hand with the cartels.

  Noam Chomsky

  Army, Hands, Agriculture

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.

  Bruce Beresford

  Feet, Mountain, Shooting

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• On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

  Michael Glawogger

  Struggle, Squares, Hands

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• To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

  Jay Leno

  Your Side, Ideas, Giving

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• In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.

  George Will

  Struggle, Government, Iraq

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• I have had the opportunity to meet men and women working in the sex trade in my travels to Mexico's northern and southern borders.

  Maya Goded

  Sex, Opportunity, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years. The prostitutes and their world have been the main subjects of my photographs.

  Maya Goded

  Years, Cities, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Ocean, Islands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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