Vazquez Mota Quotes & Sayings

I am glad we have not yet been able to reach the stars or inhabitable planets that dance about them. For they would in all probability be owned and divided by corporations and framed by industrial interests. Better they rest in distant tranquility, apart from our manufactured chaos.
Let generations to come that learn to embrace one another, with their scientists, artists and poets, be the ones that immerse in that abundance and future. For now it is best it remains out of humanity's childlike hands in that big jar, light years away, marked "cookies." There for that coming time when the only thing we need feed off of, is the endless discovery and beauty. — Tom Althouse

Courage is not a matter of gender. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened. — Winston S. Churchill

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it. — Mae West

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

Imagine, for example, that you're walking into a church. To be admitted through the front door, you're forced to sign a waiver that says, "I'm a sinner and by stepping into the room today I acknowledge that fact. — John Zahl

What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement. — Mohith Agadi

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time. — Robert Redford

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment. — Mary McDonnell

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.' — Josefina Vazquez Mota

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate ... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

I've always put myself intensely into my work. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously. — Stephen E. Ambrose

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do. — Al Goldstein

Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read. — Albert Maltz

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't. — Roger Ebert

Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning. — Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

For a child, everywhere is a playground; for an adult, it is the same, only the plays are different! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender. — Josefina Vazquez Mota