Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don't meet the population's needs, when they are not up to expectations, that leaves society free to pick other parties.

If we don't make sure that Mexico can offer potential investors more input, they'll stop coming to Mexico. They'll go to the United States or other places where it is more economically viable to carry out their projects.

I believe the conditions are very favorable for Mexico to grow. I'm very optimistic.

I see myself as a family man.

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

I really don't like to read.

My government will continue mounting a real fight against the trafficking of marijuana and all other drugs.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.

More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

The level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies.

Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.

We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

My commitment is to continue making a Mexico where families live in an environment of peace and better security.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.

We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.

Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.

Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the same as it sells to all the European Union, five times what it sells Brazil. More than what it sells together to Brazil, Russia, China, and India.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

I'm not driving to be a popular president.

We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.

Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil reserves and a tremendous potential in renewable energy.

Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.

There is no doubt a president has to govern for everyone.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

I will be a president who is close to the people.

I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.

Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.

You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken ... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.

I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.

Mexico is a safe country.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

I love to go to Acapulco with my family.

Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide.