Mexican Quotes

• Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Children

• Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Culture
  • Lost

• I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • People
  • Men
  • Character

• I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.

  

  Jacquelyn Jablonski
  • Good
  • Food
  • Mexican

• Oh, I think it was like when, you know, Cupid throws an arrow and hits you. First, there was this Mexican band, dressed up with bows and arrows. They were playing some funky weird music,, I didn't know it yet, but it was like Lee Perry, George Clinton, and Sun Ra mixed up, Mexican funky.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• Mexico is moving north. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally, the verdict of 1848 is being over-turned. Will this Mexican nation within a nation advance the goals of the Constitution - to 'insure domestic tranquility' and ‘make us a more perfect union’? Or have we imperiled our union?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Perfect
  • Moving
  • Goals

• Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables. But those vegetables were not brought here, like corn mushrooms, huitlacoche, or squash blossoms.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Cooking
  • Gone

• A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Me
  • Guitar

• I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Past

• I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • American
  • Future
  • Small

• I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert!

  

  Amanda Schull
  • Good
  • Food
  • Italian

• Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Mexican

• I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Kids
  • Black
  • Mexican

• I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • World
  • Country
  • Children

• In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Free
  • City
  • Air

• Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kids

• I can't imagine what this great country would be like if the Mexican Revolution hadn't happened.

  

  Lionel Sosa
  • Great
  • Country
  • Revolution

• It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

  

  Elton Gallegly
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Immigration

• Pemex will remain 100 percent Mexican.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Mexican

• I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • America
  • City
  • Texas

• 'Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • World
  • Society
  • Law

• You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Past
  • Identity
  • Challenges

• I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Army
  • Police
  • Mexican

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