Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesadais a Mexican businessman who was President of Mexico from 1 December 2000, to 30 November 2006 under the National Action Party. He is also the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of center-right political parties...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth2 July 1942
CountryMexico
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This week, I will announce a decree to minimize the impact of this unfortunate disaster in the United States on Mexican families and national industry,
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You can't be successful by closing yourself off to the rest of the world, ... Europe, China and Asia are taking away the jobs due to the lack of trade accords.
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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.
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first dedicate all of their attention to protecting their lives, their health and their family members.
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Fair trade governed by rules is the basis for the growth of our economy. Institutions and procedures must be strengthened, not weakened,
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We are still optimistic that next year we can finalize what we have been working on for a good number of years, reaching an agreement and the U.S. Congress approving the initiatives that are there,
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We talked about migration, which is a problem, and we explored solutions, and the solutions have to do with economic development, have to do with growing the Mexican economy at rates of 7 percent, which will give us the opportunity of building up 1,350,000 jobs,
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We recognize the value to those who come to the United States to work, to study, to contribute, and we appreciate what this will do to the flow of visitors, now that they will not have to be photographed or fingerprinted at the front-end of short visits to the United States,
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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.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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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.
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We are going to win this battle. We'll see who is tougher, we'll see who is more stubborn,
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To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.