Mexico Quotes - Page 24

• I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.

  Sarah Stillman

  Thinking, Way, Problem

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Earthquakes, Cities, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that we've punched a hole in the planet and it's spilling out oil and destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the ecosystem and seabirds and every creature.

  Mirah

  Ecosystems, Oil, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.

  Charles Bowden

  Oil, Mexican, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The country of Mexico has just gotten its first Taco Bell. You're Welcome. Finally, Mexicans will have access to... Mexican food. Bon appetit. I can't imagine how confused they will be when they get a taco.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Confused, Mexican

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• I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.

  Demian Bichir

  Believe, People, United States

  Source: collider.com

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• Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.

  Conan O'Brien

  Offering, Drug, Rewards

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• I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

  Anne Waldman

  Earthquakes, Cities, America

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.

  Felipe Esparza

  Growing Up, Dad, Used

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• As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning...we had received to beware of entering the city of Mexico, since they would kill us as soon as they had us inside.

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo

  Strong, Cities, Warning

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• We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Peace, Criminals, Want

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• If you do not learn English in this country, you cannot get anywhere. We are in America. We are not in Mexico, we are not in China, we are not in Saudi Arabia - we speak English in this country! And what bilingual education does, is keep them from learning English, so they are doomed to be second-class citizens.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Speak English, Class

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale.

  Richard Bayan

  Suicide, Cities, Done

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• Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. My abuelita, my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Mean, Grandmother

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

  Craig Ferguson

  Arizona, Used, Touchy

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• I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Mexican, Drink, Cinco De Mayo

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• I want to thank my fans for their support and love all these years, thank you Miami. Thank you Latin America. Thank you Mexico. Thank you world !

  Enrique Iglesias

  Love, Latin, Years

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• The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Country, Two, Mexican Border

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• Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's great federalist and apologist, has coined a wonderful term, la raza cósmica, "the cosmic race," a new people having not one race but many in their blood.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Race, Blood, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

  Diane Wilson

  Feminist, Movement, Made

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world, not even of neighboring countries like Mexico or neighboring continents like Latin America.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Latin, America

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• We want to make America great again. We want to bring back our industry, we want to bring back our jobs from China and Japan, and by the way Mexico, which has taken so many of our jobs. And that's what it's about. I have not heard about these incidences.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Taken, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

  Tucker Carlson

  Doe, Prisoner, Wells

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2005.

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• Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

  Edward Abbey

  Unhappy, Buzzards, Life Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

  Edward Abbey

  Latin, Government, America

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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