Who is Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox Quesada (American Spanish: [biˈsente ˈfoks keˈsaða]; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006.

Campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox ran for and was elected president on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 presidential election, becoming the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first president elected from an opposition party since the election of Francisco I. Madero in 1911. Fox won the election with 42 percent of the vote.As president, he continued the neoliberal economic policies that his predecessors from the PRI had adopted since the 1980s. The first half of his administration saw a further...
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Vicente Fox Quotes

• I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
• We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
• You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
• And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
• We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

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• Traviscchappell: defining your purpose is the most important thing.. – vicente fox
• Chadpergram: 10) moreover, fox is told the bill could earn the support of as many as six democrats. reps. henry cuellar (d-tx) and vicente gonzalez (d-tx) promised their support today. “cuellar’s vote means we’ll pick up a few more democrats,” said one republican source.
• Ericjonesaz: honored to have dinner last night with former president of mexico, vicente fox, as he shared his vision for transforming mexico.
• Griseldazetino: happening now - mexico’s former president vicente fox is in phoenix today to encourage mexico citizens living in arizona to vote in mexico’s upcoming presidential election.

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