Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Enrique Pena Nieto

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican statesman Enrique Pena Nieto.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Enrique Pena Nieto

Enrique Peña Nieto, commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th President of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the PRI, he previously served as Governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011, local deputy from 2003 to 2004, and Secretary of Administration from 2000 to 2002.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.
There is no doubt a president has to govern for everyone.
Behind every crime is a story of sadness. — © Enrique Pena Nieto
Behind every crime is a story of sadness.
We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.
In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.
I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.
Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil reserves and a tremendous potential in renewable energy.
I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.
I will be a president who is close to the people.
You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.
Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s. — © Enrique Pena Nieto
Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.
Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.
One of the big goals of my administration will be to reposition Mexico again as an emerging power.
I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.
I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.
I believe the conditions are very favorable for Mexico to grow. I'm very optimistic.
I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.
Together we are building a new Mexico.
Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.
Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.
I see myself as a family man.
More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.
I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.
Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.
I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.
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.
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.
If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.
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 route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.
The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.
Pemex will remain 100 percent Mexican.
I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.
My commitment is to continue making a Mexico where families live in an environment of peace and better security. — © Enrique Pena Nieto
My commitment is to continue making a Mexico where families live in an environment of peace and better security.
Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.
In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.
Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.
My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.
There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.
What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.
Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.
My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico. — © Enrique Pena Nieto
My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
I'm not driving to be a popular president.
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 level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies.
Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.
The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.
Ah, 'The Departed' is really good.
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.
Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.
If we don't make sure that Mexico can offer potential investors more input, they'll stop coming to Mexico. They'll go to the United States or other places where it is more economically viable to carry out their projects.
I believe that Mexico, geographically, is located in a privileged position. We serve as the meeting point with North America and the rest of Latin America.
My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs.
Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the same as it sells to all the European Union, five times what it sells Brazil. More than what it sells together to Brazil, Russia, China, and India.
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