Mexican Quotes · Page 8

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

— Carlos Santana

Day of the Dead. Sounds a little spooky doesn't it? It's actually one of the most colorful and joyous of Mexican holidays.

— Marcela Valladolid

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

— Dave Mustaine

You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

— Jeb Bush

Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.

— Simone Elkeles

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of…

— John Yoo

If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions…

— Ana Claudia Talancon

I think the Mexican government is going to be forced to at least be more aware of what goes on in the…

— Mark Halperin

I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they…

— Marco Rubio

I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an…

— Ernesto Zedillo

You know how Mexican restaurants always have "border" in the name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You wouldn't do that to black people:…

— George Lopez

The North American media have been very difficult and very critical of Julio Cesar Chavez. Why?... Because a Mexican broke the records…

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The positive thing is that today we can realize that a Mexican film it is positioned in the top 5 of the…

— Alfonso Herrera

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We…

— Bell Hooks

What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture…

— Alice Walker

[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact…

— Max Pam

It so happens that certain songs becomes part of culture, and culture is a form of preserving patterns. Yes, we're Mexican, and…

— Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

[ Donald Trump] is a man who ran on building a wall. And I know it was about legal immigration, but he…

— Margaret Hoover

I like Paul Ryan, and to a certain extent, I feel bad for him. But this is a moment of moral choice.…

— Keith Ellison

There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad…

— Phil Collins

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or…

— Tyler Posey

The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South.…

— Angus Deaton

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important…

— Adrian Younge

Unfortunately, I don't look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud…

— Ryan Guzman

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of…

— Henry Bonilla

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow,…

— Larry Wall

Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot…

— Sandra Cisneros

I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to…

— Bonnie McFarlane

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us…

— Sandra Cisneros

“It [the Mexican War] was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew…

— John Steinbeck

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into…

— Mary Doria Russell

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the…

— H. Rap Brown

I didn't know much about the Mexican gray wolf before January 2011, when we contributed a flight in our Pilatus PC12 to…

— Joy Covey

I lived in Chicago, in a shady part of town, and the cops would always stop me since I'm Mexican and I…

— Michael Pena

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African…

— Linda Ronstadt

People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy People ask me all the time,…

— Dutch Ruppersberger

My job is to show people that true Mexican cheese is not neon yellow cheese. We don't eat tacos all day long…

— Marcela Valladolid