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Quotes by Vicente Fox

After 20 years, what results do the technocrats and free-marketers have to show people?
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.
– Vicente Fox
If someone expresses interest in investing in Guanajuato, we don't let them get away.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
– Vicente Fox
There are people who in private ask us to respect the confidentiality of their donations, and we do, because we understand the fear they have of being repressed, just as I was when I began in politics. Important businesspeople often lose the vision of the wonderful opportunities this country offers if we achieve a true democracy-they prefer short-term benefits. The ones who ARE changing are women. They have a very different vision.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
– Vicente Fox
The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
– Vicente Fox
On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
– Vicente Fox
Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.
– Vicente Fox
I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
– Vicente Fox
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.
– Vicente Fox
And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
– Vicente Fox