There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.

My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.

We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil reserves and a tremendous potential in renewable energy.

Together we are building a new Mexico.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

I will be a president who is close to the people.

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.

I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.

I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.

One of the big goals of my administration will be to reposition Mexico again as an emerging power.

Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the same as it sells to all the European Union, five times what it sells Brazil. More than what it sells together to Brazil, Russia, China, and India.

Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.

I'm not driving to be a popular president.

The level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

I believe that Mexico, geographically, is located in a privileged position. We serve as the meeting point with North America and the rest of Latin America.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

I believe the conditions are very favorable for Mexico to grow. I'm very optimistic.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.

Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.

Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide.

Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.

We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

If we don't make sure that Mexico can offer potential investors more input, they'll stop coming to Mexico. They'll go to the United States or other places where it is more economically viable to carry out their projects.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.

In terms of the espionage, this is something I have talked to President Obama about. We don't want it to mar the relationship between Mexico and the United States. But it is unacceptable for a country to practice such espionage, especially if there is a good relationship with the other country.

I really don't like to read.

I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

I think a good relationship that Mexico could maintain with the United States and vice versa should be based on trust, on opening - openness and constant dialogue that would allow us essentially to define, share objectives and to work towards those so as to avoid activities which are not known to the other government.

What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.

Mexico is a safe country.