Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.
One of the big goals of my administration will be to reposition Mexico again as an emerging power.
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.
I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.