Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

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.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

Beginning of our conversation with Donald Trump, I made it very clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall.

Mexico and the USA are friends, partners and allies and should continue to work together for competivity and development across North America.

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

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.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.

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

Undoubtedly, for Mexico, it is very important for the United States to do well and for the United States to have a strong economy. And for the United States it's also very convenient for the Mexican economy to also do well.

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

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

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

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.

For Mexicans, for Americans, we are all united by 3,000 kilometers of border, with neighboring states - ten neighbors states, and with population over 15 million inhabitants. And their well-being depends on the well-being of their neighbors.

I think the free market model of commercial trade openness - this model has undoubtedly shown enormous benefits for nations, for those of us that follow this model, of course.

I confirm that Mexico and the United States will continue to reinforce the links of cooperation and mutual respect.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

There has maybe been a poor - a misunderstanding or statements that have maybe hurt, unfortunately. The Mexicans have felt offended by what has been said [by Donald Trump]. But I am certain that his genuine interest is in building a relationship that will provide our mutual societies improved wellbeing.

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.

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.

We`re not in agreement on all topics. I had a conversation with Mr. [Donald] Trump that was open and constructive.

I'm opposed to legalizing marijuana because it acts as a gateway drug.

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.

The relationship between the United States and Mexico goes over and beyond the relationship between two governments. This is a relationship that has been built as of two peoples who have a common life, or millions of people who have their everyday lives in both nations; a relationship that undoubtedly involves millions of inhabitants of both countries.

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

After Iguala, Mexico has to change.