Vicente Fox Quotes
I am the only public servant and the only Mexican President ever who has made his finances public from before, during, and after public service.
The first non-PRI President in over 70 years. Before Fox, the corruption of Mexican Presidents was rampant.
Vincente Fox, President of Mexico (National Action Party), Governor, Guanajuato, Mexico, Interview, C-SPAN, Washington Journal, October 11, 2007
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
See Charles James Fox, John Milton, Jeremy Bentham, George Mason, Henry Clay, Benjamin Disraeli and Woodrow Wilson for similar expressions of this idea.
This is an important quotation because it was believed by most of the Founding Fathers and the American public until relatively recently. Presidential candidates would not think of publicly campaigning. The view was that anyone who was ambitious for power and authority should not be trusted with it. The idea was first stated by Plato and has been a major view of Western politics since. Many still believe it, but no one has come up with a practical alternative in a large jurisdiction where there is no way to know about the possible candidates without their initiative. Earlier American presidential candidates, although they did not campaign as we know it, got associates to do their campaigning for them. At Presidential nominating conventions, candidates would not even attend. Abraham Lincoln for example never attended the convention at which he got nominated, but he had associates lining up delagates and he was managing their efforts behind the scenes.
She was a judge and a prosecutor before she had been a member of Congress.
Vicente Fox Quesada GCMG CYC is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006.
