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Quotes About Mexico

Democracy will not come to Mexico as the result of supposedly optimal policies prescribed by self-appointed saviors bent on economic stabilization.
~ Denise Dresser
It takes a little time to get a visa to Mexico. They don't let just anybody in.
~ Raymond Chandler
Tijuana is not Mexico. No border town is anything but a border town, just as no waterfront is anything but a waterfront. San Diego? One of the most beautiful harbors in the world and nothing in it but navy and a few fishing boats.
~ Raymond Chandler
Bet you did not know that in Mexico they call a Palomino an Isabella. Or that George Washington's warhorse was an Arab named Magnolia. I sure as hell did not. Hey, Magnolia! Takes a mighty secure man to ride a horse into battle with a name like that; well, to ride a horse into battle at all.
~ Julia Glass
I'd heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn't think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.
~ Karl Pilkington
Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.
~ Jay Leno
You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.
~ Richard Rodriguez
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
~ Mika
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
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
~ Herb Alpert
Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
~ Adam Duritz
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
~ Salma Hayek
Probably not a surprise that, among the people of Mexico, just 4 percent say that they have a positive opinion of [Donald] Trump. Seventy-five percent say they have a negative opinion.
~ Steve Kornacki
Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico's leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships.
~ Doug Ducey
was certainly responsible for a much larger share of world trade than any comparable zone and the weight of its economic power even reached Mexico, whose textile manufacture suffered a crisis of 'de-industrialisation' due to Indian cloth
~ William Dalrymple
The American craving for illegal, mind-altering, addictive chemicals provides a steady flow of American capital through the Texas border into Mexico and South America. Basically, the drug traffic is uncontainable as long as its U.S. market exists, but newspapers and other media virtuously trumpet feel-good headlines about "record drug busts" and arrests while the drug trade continues unabated.
~ William Earl Maxwell
Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.
~ Porfirio Diaz
There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.
~ Bill Maher
What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico.
~ Donald Trump
The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.
~ Donald Trump
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
~ William H. Wharton
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
~ Alfonso Cuaron
For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
~ Donald Trump