Vicente Fox Quotes

• "After 20 years, what results do the technocrats and free-marketers have to show people?"
• "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."
• "Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially."
• "I am the guardian of power, not its owner."
• "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 have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years."
• "I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico."
• "If someone expresses interest in investing in Guanajuato, we don't let them get away."
• "Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country."
• "NAFTA has been good, has created jobs in Mexico, has created jobs in the United States, but the problem is that income in Mexico has not improved in all the years of NAFTA. So we better start thinking of other ideas that can reduce this difference."
• "Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded."
• "There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States."
• "Up to now, each President has implemented purely personal projects while in office. The PRI used that to stay in power. Today, more than ever, we need to have a national plan of action that represents the consensus of all Mexicans. That's one of the things I'm trying to put together in this campaign."
• "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."
• "We plan to increase the growth of the economy up to 7% to make sure that we have those 1,350,000 new jobs that we need in Mexico. But at the same time, we have this huge difference in salaries between Mexican side and U.S. side."
• "We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far."
• "You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world."
• "Pope John Paul II was an exceptional man, his legacy will transcend generations."
• "Free people, democracies and leaders will stand firm against this evil and we will show that they're going to lose and that good people is to win. [on the London terrorist bombings, 7th July 2005]"