Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes
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Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
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Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
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The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.
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My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
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I believe that I have always told the truth.
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The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.
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I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.
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Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.
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The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
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Trust comes from deeds.
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Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.
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Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.
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The political parties have lost their loyalties.
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Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.
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I am an undiplomatic diplomat.
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For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect plurality, and to build, among ourselves, bridges and more bridges.
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We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.
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I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.
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I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
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We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.