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

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My nature just changes.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.

Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.