Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Josefina Vazquez Mota

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican politician Josefina Vazquez Mota.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

Josefina Eugenia Vázquez Mota is a businessperson and politician who was the presidential candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) for the 2012 elections. Vázquez Mota was trained as an economist and began her working career in family businesses and with various business organizations and conferences, also working as a journalist and writing books. She began her political career with the  PAN organization, becoming involved in Mexico’s federal Chamber of Deputies of Mexico and then in the administrations of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón. She was PAN's first female candidate for president.

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.
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.
We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong. — © Josefina Vazquez Mota
We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.
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.
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.
Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
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.'
In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.
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.
I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.
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.
I've always put myself intensely into my work.
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.
I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.
Courage is not a matter of gender. — © Josefina Vazquez Mota
Courage is not a matter of gender.
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