"But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home."

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Source : "A View From the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. August 1997.

Richard Rodriguez

#Country Quotes #Home Quotes #America Quotes

“If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.”

Source : "Christi Matri". Encyclical Of Pope Paul VI On Prayers For Peace During October, w2.vatican.va. September 15, 1966.
“The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even look at them, and then they have to show something that holds that interst - and naturally they have to be presentable, just as a song has to be sung well, otherwise people run away. One mustn't underrate this quality, and I have always been delighted when my pieces have also appealed to the museum guards, the laymen.”
“I think it is important for everybody to bring their spending habits into line with their ideals.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.
“I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.”
“Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.”
“A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.”
“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.”
“The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.”

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