Daily Inspiration Quote by Vicente Fox

There is a blunt audacity to calling spending itself the top priority: Fox turns the budget into a moral document, not just an accounting tool. “Every peso possible” is more than a fiscal promise; it’s a performance of urgency. It signals a break from the technocratic language that often sanitizes poverty into “indicators” and “growth.” Fox frames inclusion as an active choice with a price tag, implying that exclusion isn’t accidental or inevitable. It’s something the state has been quietly paying for all along, just in reverse.

The subtext is political as much as ethical. As the first opposition president to end the PRI’s 71-year hold on power, Fox had to narrate regime change as social change. “Include those who are currently excluded” casts Mexico’s inequality not as a failure of individuals, but as a structural lockout maintained by institutions, patronage networks, and uneven access to education, healthcare, and formal work. The phrase “currently excluded” also does strategic work: it makes exclusion sound reversible, as if policy can flip a switch from margins to membership.

Context sharpens the edge. Fox governed at a moment when Mexico was selling itself as modernizing, NAFTA-integrated, investment-ready. This line insists that modernization without redistribution is just a shinier version of the same country. It’s aspirational, yes, but also a preemptive defense: if you’re going to dismantle an old political machine, you promise the people outside it that they’ll finally get a seat at the table - funded, not merely invited.