Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican diplomat Adolfo Aguilar Zinser.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Adolfo Aguilar Zínser was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq.

Mexican - Diplomat | December 2, 1949 - June 5, 2005

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I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I am an undiplomatic diplomat.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect plurality, and to build, among ourselves, bridges and more bridges.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Trust comes from deeds.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

The political parties have lost their loyalties.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser