Words matter. These are the best Nayib Bukele Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We want to be friends with China, but China has to be friends with us. I don’t mean money or investment, but respect.
It’s our responsibility to create the conditions where people don’t want to flee our country.
We will make a country that is more prosperous and that can provide decent paying jobs for all of our people.
Just as I would not abide by a resolution ordering me to kill Salvadorans. I also cannot abide by a resolution that orders me to let them die.
President Trump is very nice and cool… and I’m nice and cool too.
Sometimes what’s recommended to the people is something different than what’s recommended to the leaders, because I have been recommended to use hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis and the probability of this harming you is very low.
We can send all the blame to any government we like. We can say President Trump’s policies are wrong. We can say Mexico’s policies are wrong. But, what about our blame?
The police and armed forces must prioritize safeguarding their lives, those of their companions and of honest citizens. The use of lethal force is authorized in self-defense or in defense of the lives of Salvadoreans.
The people are going to be able to judge for themselves who is supporting corruption and who is against it.
Everybody wants to be home. People will rather stay at their home with little than risk everything to try to find more.
We’re trying to challenge the gangs, not by repression, but by competing to get the young people to our side.
Lawmakers are scandalized when they see a soldier, but they were not scandalized when gang members entered the Legislative Assembly to negotiate the lives of Salvadorans.
The police is using decaying equipment. The military, which has also been on the front lines in combating domestic terrorism, has been doing so with outdated and insufficient equipment.
It is clear that there has been money, but it has gone to line the pockets of the corrupt.
We have a problem that we have to fix in El Salvador – We have been sending migrants to the United States and elsewhere since the ’80s and now we have almost a quarter of our population living abroad.
China does not play by the rules; they do not respect the rules. They develop projects that are not feasible, leaving countries with huge debt that cannot be paid back and use that as financial leverage.
I started being president when I was 37. I don’t wanna be out – I’m gonna be out of the presidency at 42. I really don’t wanna be in jail at 43, right? So I mean I’m not here to steal money.
People don’t flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to. Why? Because they don’t have a job, because they are being threatened by gangs, because they don’t have basic things like water, education, health.
How much would Italy give to be in our position and be able to declare a quarantine before having thousands of cases? We are facing a pandemic with an incredible virility that has probably never been seen before.
I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation.
I believe that the way politics has been done in the country is wrong. It has always been based on alliances that don’t have the well-being of the people as their first priority.
It is obvious, our country has failed to provide two basic things which are the two main drivers of immigration, which are the lack of economic opportunity and a lack of security.
El Salvador needs to be friends with the United States. It is an imperative for us.
If the U.S. government is serious about fighting irregular migration, it should support and encourage legal migration.
Rather than focusing on my attempts to protect the Salvadoran people, the media should focus on why the National Assembly continues failing the people of El Salvador.
