“[O]ur race of men can never be subjected to the imbecile and indolent Mexican race.… The Anglo-Saxon blood could never be subdued by anything that claimed Mexican origin.”
—JAMES BUCHANAN
“I have the greatest affection for [blacks] but I know they’re not going to make it for 500 years. They aren’t. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they’re dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don’t live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“The little brown ones.”
—GEORGE H. W. BUSH, referring to his three Mexican-American grandchildren