Quotes from Enrique Pena Nieto

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.

I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.

You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don't meet the population's needs, when they are not up to expectations, that leaves society free to pick other parties.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.

I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.

Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.

Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.

I see myself as a family man.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.