Attack Quote by Max Boot

“In the White House now was James Polk, a Democrat, an expansionist, who, on the night of his inauguration, confided to his Secretary of…

— Howard Zinn

“The Mexicans had fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted, according to Colonel Hitchcock, who wrote in his…

— Howard Zinn

“Mexico surrendered. There were calls among Americans to take all of Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 1848, just took half. The…

— Howard Zinn

Mexico has taken advantage of the United States. I don't blame the representatives and various presidents, et cetera, of Mexico. What I say is…

— Donald Trump

In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was…

— Alan Bersin

“Now Mexico has a standing army larger than that of the United States. They have a military school modelled after West Point. Their officers…

— Ulysses S. Grant

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

— John Steinbeck

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

— Jorge Ramos

Abraham Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican War. But once Americans were under fire, people who were on the fence felt obliged to support…

— H. W. Brands

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

— Steve Scalise

“[The Mexican war made three presidential candidates, Scott, Taylor and Pierce—and any number of aspirants for that high office. It made also governors of…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just…

— Will Rogers