Top 44 Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

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

I believe immigration reform is a commitment of President Obama’s government, especially since it gives him a chance to respond to the great demand expressed by U.S. Hispanic voters.

I’m not going to work so that Pena Nieto is the best known or most recognized in the world. I’m going to work so that Mexico has results.

One of the big goals of my administration will be to reposition Mexico again as an emerging power.

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

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.

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 are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.

I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

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

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.

I really don’t like to read.

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.

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

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.

I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.

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.

What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.

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 see myself as a family man.

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

Politics and more politics – that’s how you work towards the building of agreements.

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

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

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.

I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

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

The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.

Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.

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.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

I’m not driving to be a popular president.

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

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.

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

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.