Top 1200 Mexican American Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

I'm a proud Cuban-Mexican immigrant.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversight and stewardship of these resources for the American people.

No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

I love Mexican food.

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.

If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if they went to school or not, and if they're well-educated or not. Is it an American from Texas, or an American from Brooklyn? Things would change with the vocabulary and the accent.

It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'

My preference is not to fight a Mexican.

I am Mexican, and people tend to forget that.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I'll be eating it.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

I didn't want to be on screen not nailing an American accent. It's an insult to an American! There are plenty of great American actors who can already do an American accent, so me, coming in and stealing their roles, the one thing I have to perfect is the accent. So for years I practiced. And we're lucky because the whole world is raised on a library of American movies. I would pretend to be Jim Carrey, and, I say Robin Williams now because he's in my mind, but those actors really inspired us to be crazy and be theatrical.

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids and an American wife, and when I go back to England I feel more like an American, the way I look at the world, is more from an American perspective at this point. I've traveled every state 30 or 40 times, and have met an amazing array of people, and I have found Americans to be among the most kind and tolerant people I have ever met.

Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.

Pemex will remain 100 percent Mexican.

I grew up Mexican.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

I wanted to infuse my music with Mexican character.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Together we can save American lives, American jobs, and American futures.

Though I'm Punjabi, I'm often mistaken to be a Mexican or Spaniard.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

I've always liked Mexican food.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.

I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

When you talk about Mexican culture, it's wrestling and soccer.

The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

Tatted like a Mexican, fresher than a freshman.

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.

'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

We should really focus on an American First agenda, and these climate pacts and climate regulations have been designed to not necessarily give American workers and the American environment a head start. It really gives our competition a greater ability to compete internationally and disadvantage American companies.

I love Italian, Mexican, Thai. Something spicy.

By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.

My purpose is to make sure that we protect every American, wherever that American is, and if an American is calling out for help, whether it's in Benghazi or at the border, then we ought to be able to answer it.

I'm Mexican. I eat salsa with everything.

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.

Every Christmas, I cook an elaborate Mexican dinner.

I've got that Mexican blood in me.

I could eat Mexican food every day.