Plutarco Elias Calles Quotes

America must be kept American

It must always be America first—America First!

If I were a Mexican, I would tell you, “Have you not enough room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.

Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?

We want to make our own Netherlands, to close our borders and to keep all that money that we give to the foreigners, there is billions, to Africa for development, to Brussels, to Greece, to asylum seekers in the Netherlands, we will stop that and give all that money to the Dutch people living in the Netherlands.

I say if you are here illegally and are displaying and waving the Mexican flag, you should go back to Mexico and fly that flag there.

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

Protect the country—Kill the foreigner.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else.’

Political demagogues will seek popularity by public speeches full of insult to foreign countries, and yellow journals will seek to increase their circulation by appeals to prejudice against foreigners.

The EU aspired to transcend nation-states, but its fatal flaw has been its consistent failure to recognize the persistence of national differences and the importance of addressing threats on its frontiers. One consequence of this oversight has been the rise of political parties that aim to restore national autonomy, often by appealing to far-right, populist, and sometimes xenophobic sentiments

To advance his administration's agenda with its protectionism and cultural nationalism, Donald Trump needs to spread the notion that the polyglot metropolis is a dangerous failure.

I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist.

While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.

I think 2017 is going to be the year of the grand return of the nation-state, the control of borders and currencies.

I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

People tell me to go back to my country, and I'm an American.

I'm a Trump guy. I wasn't in the beginning, of course. I'm Mexican, when he said we need to take all the Mexicans out of United States... well, good luck on that one. They'll find a way to get back here anyways.

Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.