In Latin America, Even Atheists Are Catholics.

Like All Of Latin America, Mexico After Independence In 1821 Turned Its Back On A Triple Heritage: On The Spanish Heritage, Because We Were Newly Liberated Colonies, And On Our Indian And Black Heritages, Because We Considered Them Backward And Barbaric. We Looked Towards France, England And The U.s., To Become Progressive Democratic Republics.

There Is No Creation Without Tradition; The 'new' Is An Inflection On A Preceding Form; Novelty Is Always A Variation On The Past.

The United States Still Thinks That Mexico Is A Nineteenth Century Industrial Society. It Isn't That Any Longer, It Has To Adapt To A New Reality. But We Have A Grave Responsibility In Mexico, Which Is To Give Work To Our Own People. As Long As We Have A System That Denies Work To 50 Percent Of The Population, You'll Have Immigrants Coming To The United States.

What America Does Best Is To Understand Itself. What It Does Worst Is To Understand Others.

I’ve Been Thrashed By The Critics. I Love Having Critics For Breakfast. I’ve Been Having Them For 30 Years In Mexico - Just Eating Them Like Chicken And Then Throwing The Bones Away. They Have Not Survived, I Have!