William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico"
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Mexico
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path."
Frida Kahlo
Painter
"I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was."
Heather Wilson
Politician
"The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy."
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"Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language."
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"Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial."
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"All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico."
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"Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?"
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"I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years. The prostitutes and their world have been the main subjects of my photographs."
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"Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy."
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"I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left."
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"The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement."
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"There is one government with which we keep diplomatic relations, the government of Mexico, with which we have good relations. Our systems are different. We respect their system."
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"Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo."
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"Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best."
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"Mexico is divided over the results of its presidential election. The U.S.had offered to send in a task force to help determine the outcome, but unfortunately the Supreme Court is currently not in session."
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"We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of the wall is the enemy. Are we looking at Mexico as the enemy? No, it's not. These are our trading partners."
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"I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico."
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"I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit."
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"What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?"
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"In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up."
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"Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states."
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"The relationship of the United States with Mexico is a matter for the United States and Mexico."
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"New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state."
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