Enrique Pena Nieto quotes

Enrique Peña Nieto is a Mexican statesman who served as the President of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. As a leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he played a central role in national reforms and economic policies. He is recognized for implementing controversial energy and education reforms, as well as for facing significant challenges related to corruption and security. Here are 17 of his quotes:

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

Enrique Pena Nieto

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

Enrique Pena Nieto

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.

Enrique Pena Nieto

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

Enrique Pena Nieto

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

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

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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.

Enrique Pena Nieto

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.

Enrique Pena Nieto

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.

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The espionage is illegal, and I think that it breaks from the climate of harmony and cordiality we should have among our nations and peoples. Given everything that is now known, and the position of other heads of state on this issue, we hope that the United States, with humbleness, will recognize [the error of] what it did and avoid such actions from now on. And if there have been violations of international law, penalties should take place.

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Corruption is an endemic evil -- a cultural problem, not only for Mexico but for [all] Latin America. Fighting it has to do with [improving] the environment for individual development. And this involves improving the economy, which we're doing. And wherever there's corruption, people have to denounce it so that there's no impunity and we can penalize or sanction corrupt practices.

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We are a sovereign nation, and we will act as such. The exercise of sovereignty implies that, in the process of negotiation, our only interest is that of Mexico and those of Mexicans.

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Asia is a region with great potential, and the TPP would create a new rela­tionship with great potential for trade among the countries signing the agree­ment. These two instruments, if they materialize, will create great oppor­tunities for Mexico. Mexico hasn't been the obstacle to finalizing the TPP.

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Mexico is a country that has a lot of energy potential. We not only have oil; we also have shale gas. But we cannot expect that a Mexican state company is the only one that can exploit the resources. Resources will continue belonging to Mexicans. They are the patrimony of the nation. But the Mexican state must find more efficient ways to exploit those resources.

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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.

Enrique Pena Nieto