Quotes from Vicente Fox


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President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.


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.


I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.


Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.


We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.


We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.


What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.


I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.


There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.


The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.


We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.


Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.


If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.


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


I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.


Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.


Every idea has its time.


Always, in every human action, there are leaders.


What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.


At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.