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Quotes About Mexico

We have to help them. If the suffering of our friends means nothing, if those kids can't be allowed to see us, to see Mexico as it really is, then what are they even doing here? Are they just drive-by Samaritans?
~ Jeanine Cummins
If a tourist mecca like Acapulco could fall, then nowhere in Mexico was safe.
~ Jeanine Cummins
The unsolved-crime rate in Mexico is well north of 90 percent. The costumed existence of la policía provides the necessary counterillusion to the fact of the cartel's actual impunity. Lydia knows this. Everyone knows this. She
~ Jeanine Cummins
way the government clears migrants from the trains in some places, spending millions of pesos and dollars to build those track-fences in Oaxaca and Chiapas and Mexico state, all while turning a blind eye in other locations.
~ Jeanine Cummins
ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE SECTIONS of Tom Lea's memorable novel, The Brave Bulls, deals with the visit of the impressario, Eladio Gomez, to a mythical bull ranch known as Las Astas, where the Homeric figure of Don Tiburcio Balbuena raises the finest fighting bulls in all Mexico. By a fortunate chance I was once able to pay a similar visit to the reality on which Las Astas was based, and I found reality to be fully as fascinating as fancy. In
~ Jeff Cooper
Mis hombres van a registrar la casa.
~ Elena Garro
Usted conoce México? Pues Gabriel es como México, lleno de montañas y de valles inmensos… Siempre hay sol y los árboles no cambian de hojas sino de verdes…
~ Elena Garro
The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
We need to stop illegal weapons flowing from the U.S. into Mexico.
~ Luis Videgaray Caso
Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.
~ Bruce Beresford
In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them.
~ Linda Ronstadt
In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
~ Alvaro Enrigue
Andrade had fame and popularity in Mexico, and he experienced that same fanfare when he made his NXT debut.
~ Zelina Vega
In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
Mr. Trump never made any derogatory or disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants... He was talking about Mexico. They're allowing people to pour through their borders, and that's a problem for our national security.
~ Michael Cohen
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.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
If what is on the table is something that is not good for Mexico, Mexico will step away from NAFTA.
~ Luis Videgaray Caso
I'm gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We're only gonna have a few tables, and we're only gonna cook what's fresh that day. We're gonna get back to the basics... Real food for real people.
~ Guy Fieri
I'm gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We're only gonna have a few tables, and we're only gonna cook what's fresh that day. We're gonna get back to the basics.
~ Guy Fieri
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
~ Salma Hayek
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.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.
~ Joe Arpaio
'Babylone, Babylone' is remarkable. Emmanuel is fascinated by Mexico. He knows the country without having been there... I am amazed by his intellectual capacities. He is extraordinary. I am talking about the man, not about my husband.
~ Brigitte Macron