Mexicans Quotations

I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.

I'm happy and I'm focused on my work... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.

Super polished signage is not always a good sign. I'm always looking for places that you have to know about to find. Also, just food-wise, if I'm eating ethnic cuisine - I hate that phrase, but still - If I'm eating Mexican food, I'm looking to see that there are Mexicans in the restaurant. They know if the food is being made right.

What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you?' and we would say, 'Well, what are you? We're just human like you!' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

What we're saying is the law needs to be applied. The law needs to be followed and that means the law for everyone, not just the illegal alien Mexicans but people who are here illegally from Europe and from around the world.

United we Mexicans greet you with joy and hope, ... We receive you with our hearts in our hands.

When the school was first created, it was with the idea that we would provide the opportunity for New Mexicans to obtain a medical education and at same time address the concern of medically underserved areas within the state.

So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.

My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs.

My advice to all New Mexicans is document, document, document your losses.

I am inviting you and all the young people who are listening to become a new generation of Mexicans taking control of public life.

I am sure that in the next weeks and at the end of the electoral race prudence and the fundamental unity of the Mexicans will prevail at the slightest hint of intolerance or illegality,

I felt I was boxing pretty good. The one thing about the Mexicans is they always come to give you a good fight.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

I went to Mexico City about four times this summer, trying to get the networks to televise the games where the Mexicans are playing.

Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.

Most Mexicans think he is well-intentioned. It's not that this presidency has been bad; it's been very mediocre, frivolous. Many Mexicans' attitude is one of resignation.

Most Mexicans know someone who has gone to the United States, or someone who receives money from someone over there or someone who is thinking about going themselves. Seeing the marches of immigrants in the United States in Mexican media has also had a huge impact here.

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

Mexico was taken by surprise. Nobody anticipated the depth and numbers of the demonstrations. There were many doubts on how to react. . . . It's been difficult for Mexicans to express sympathy and solidarity.

Mexico is on an irreversible, definitive, historical path to democratic equality, ... I am confident that ... all Mexicans can say with pride and with unity that democracy has been institutionalized in our country,

Mexicans are educating themselves and becoming serious consumers of wine, and sommeliers in Mexico City are starting to take notice.

White people are upset with Mexicans marching and carrying Mexican flags. Instead of carrying Mexican flags and screaming for the rights of people who came into this country illegally, we'll be carrying American flags.

Today, the Mexicans have taken over and are running the organized crime, and getting the bulk of the money. The Colombians have pulled back.

We got one postcard from Pasadena that said words to the effect, 'All you dirty Mexicans should go back to Mexico. The only good Mexican is a dead Mexican.

There is simply no credible evidence that the Minutemen have deterred any Mexicans from leaving home, coming to the border and trying to gain entry until they succeed.

Contrary to what people might expect, the inclination to migrate isn't contained among Mexicans who are poor or poorly educated or with limited economic prospects. They're distributed across the whole breadth of Mexican society.

The United States can benefit from the work and the effort of the Mexican people as much as we Mexicans can benefit from working with the American market, with American investors,

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

You're not gonna get respect from Mexican fans until you start beating Mexicans teams. It translates to winning.

A lot of terrain is so rugged and dense with foliage you wouldn't think about taking your family to those areas. It's amazing how much work these Mexicans put in to get a crop out.

This loan will help improve telecommunication lines so that New Mexicans in these areas have greater business and educational opportunities,

This law doesn't just affect Mexicans - it affects everybody.

Not many people want to come and work three jobs so they can ski one afternoon a week. A lot of the Mexicans aren't interested in skiing, they're just making a better wage than where they're coming from. At this point most resorts couldn't live without them.

The Mexicans are going to keep coming, wall or no wall, new laws or old laws.

The Mexicans and Venezuelans basically pooh-poohed discussing another round of cuts, ... They essentially said that they have no interest in discussing that right now.

Immigrants have a huge impact. Who's been fixing houses after the hurricanes and working in restaurants? This parade shows the unity among Cubans, Mexicans and all Hispanics.

In the last 15 years, only 500,000 jobs have been created per year. So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

I probably wouldn't have a big problem, but the Mexicans come here with their language you don't understand. I don't have no problem with foreign people come in, at least (if) they talk right ... They should speak English or get out.

I just know they are trying to build a wall. I do understand about the reforms and all that that is going on, but still, I think that Mexicans should have a piece of the pie inside this country because we are a fundamental part of the United States.

He better understand how the U.S. society works and clicks to be able to protect the 8 million undocumented Mexicans in the United States.