Top 35 Vicente Fox Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Mexico extends beyond its borders.”

— Vicente Fox

2. “I am the guardian of power, not its owner.”

— Vicente Fox

3. “Prohibition didn’t work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.”

— Vicente Fox

4. “I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.”

— Vicente Fox

5. “The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.”

— Vicente Fox

6. “First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.”

— Vicente Fox

7. “Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man’s greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.”

— Vicente Fox

8. “What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.”

— Vicente Fox

9. “We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We’re not building walls to retain our people.”

— Vicente Fox

10. “I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.”

— Vicente Fox

11. “At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.”

— Vicente Fox

12. “Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico’s culture and natural attractions.”

— Vicente Fox

13. “We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.”

— Vicente Fox

14. “The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.”

— Vicente Fox

15. “There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women – full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work – are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.”

— Vicente Fox

16. “We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.”

— Vicente Fox

17. “Mexico doesn’t deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.”

— Vicente Fox

18. “I think there’s a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.”

— Vicente Fox

19. “And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.”

— Vicente Fox

20. “There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.”

— Vicente Fox

21. “I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.”

— Vicente Fox

22. “By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.”

— Vicente Fox

23. “President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.”

— Vicente Fox

24. “I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what – just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.”

— Vicente Fox

25. “Let me tell you that I love the United States.”

— Vicente Fox

26. “I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.”

— Vicente Fox

27. “When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world. Humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense.”

— Vicente Fox

28. “Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.”

— Vicente Fox

29. “So if Arizona sees the federal government isn’t assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it’s a federal issue.”

— Vicente Fox

30. “I think it’s very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.”

— Vicente Fox

31. “No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.”

— Vicente Fox

32. “Fortunately, I have money that’s from my life’s work. But it’s money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.”

— Vicente Fox

33. “I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.”

— Vicente Fox

34. “We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.”

— Vicente Fox

35. “Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.”

— Vicente Fox

36. “Every idea has its time.”

— Vicente Fox

37. “We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.”

— Vicente Fox

38. “Always, in every human action, there are leaders.”

— Vicente Fox

39. “Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.”

— Vicente Fox