Quotes About Mexicans

When Trump called Mexicans "rapists" in the speech announcing his candidacy on June 16, 2015, Priebus called him and said, "You can't talk like that. We've been working really hard to win over Hispanics.

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaches out to embrace suffering Syrians, his government seems ready to throw embattled Mexicans under the bus just to appease Mr. Trump.

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

If Trump was really looking for Mexicans to pay for the wall, he should put in a call to Sinaloa. They'd probably build it for him.

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

For Mexicans, corruption is not a deal breaker.

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

I don't think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there's no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn't make any sense either.

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

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.

The ancient Mexicans used to spend all the day and half the night in dancing with only cacao for nourishment.

The mariachis grinned and the leader apologized: "We thought you were only a norteamericano." I winced at this pejorative term but said nothing, because I knew that proud Mexicans liked to remind visitors from the north, "Everyone on this continent is an americano, you're a norteamericano. Don't rob us of our name by stealing it for yourselves.

The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed that collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen, or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors

The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.

By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

The United States too had crowded cities and hungry workers, fighting efforts to subordinate their lives to mechanical routine. But instead of waging class war upward—on aristocrats and owners—they waged race war outward, on the frontier. 'Prenticeboys didn't head to the barricades to fight the gentry but rather joined with the gentry to go west and fight Indians and Mexicans.

Gabacho: A gringo. But Mexicans don't call gringos gringos. Only gringos call gringos gringos. Mexicans call gringos gabachos.

Farnsworth's innovation of offering multiple items on one plate, but added even more combinations. Someone at the restaurant numbered the different options, making it easier for non-Mexicans to order a plate instead of pronouncing each item on the menu, and the—pick your favorite: #1? #5? #15?—numbered combo plate became de rigueur.

Why is it that when you invite Mexicans to a party, they feel compelled to bring along thirty of their relatives? NOT ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE Dear Gabacho: Mexicans and parties—was there ever a coupling more spectacularly grotesque? We drink mucho, we eat mucho, we fight mucho, we love mucho, we mucho mucho.

Desacuerdo número no: los mexicanos no estamos de acuerdo en cumplir la ley, ni en las leyes que queremos cumplir.

When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals or John McCain's not a hero, he is showing you who he is.

Acosta alludes to this, in his "History of the Indies," as follows: "In the beginning of the year 1518, they (the Mexicans), discovered a fleet at sea, in the which was the Marques del Valle, Don Fernando Cortez, with his companions, a news which much troubled Montezuma, and conferring with his council, they all said, that without doubt, their great and ancient lord Quetzalcoatle was come, who had said that he would return from the East, whither he had gone." [239:6]

Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'