Mexico Quotes - Page 3

• As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

  Rick Renzi

  Summer, America, Energy

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• 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.

  Vicente Fox

  Believe, Technological Development, Oil

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• On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

  Ric Keller

  Journey, California, Coyotes

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• Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

  Stephen Ambrose

  Texas, California, Would Be

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• They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

  Erik Estrada

  Would Be, Lines, Soap

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• Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

  Margaret Chan

  Beautiful, Safe, Gracious

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• A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

  Jim Caviezel

  Thank You, Hands, Film

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• Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

  Bob Dylan

  Cities, Mind, Minnesota

  "Jack Kerouac" by Alison Behnke, (p. 100), 2007.

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• We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Country, Land, Race

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.34

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• We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

  Richard M. Daley

  Travel, Airports, Needs

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• Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

  Joe Baca

  Years, Independence, Cinco De Mayo

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• You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

  Jennifer Esposito

  Mother, Father, Giving

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Rome, Paris

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• But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

  Sydney Pollack

  Japan, Europe, Yugoslavia

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

  Vicente Fox

  Thinking, Usa, Important

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• The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Years, Cities

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• When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Country, Play

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• Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Memories, Safety, Childhood

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• Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

  Norman Spinrad

  Manipulation, Myth, Archetype

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• I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Mexican Border, Southern

  Donald Trump's Announcement on Presidential Campaign Launch at the Trump Tower in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.

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• My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

  Salma Hayek

  Hollywood, Driving, Ability

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• But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

  John Cornyn

  Country, Years, People

  "Sens. Reed, Cornyn Talk 'Ground Zero Mosque,' Immigration Reform and Afghanistan". "Fox News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

  Thinking, People, Boss

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• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Roger Wicker

  Country, School, Safety

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• I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

  Janet Napolitano

  Long, United States, Would Be

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