Words matter. These are the best Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was very identified with and accused of being a neo-liberal with respect to the economy.
I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.
The actions I took at a time of national crisis in 2003 were necessary to protect lives and property and restore law and order. Regrettably, lives were lost among both the government forces and armed protesters.
Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.
We want to bring order and respect for the constitution.
I’m going to have to campaign to teach Bolivians who the president is, because apparently they haven’t realized I’m here yet.
Taking power is fine. But what do you do when you are in power?
Democracy is not perfect.
I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.
As a political exile, you always think you’re going home next year.
Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times.
The economy should serve man, not statistics.
Around the continent, governments worry that indigenous groups are fertile ground for extremist, terrorist groups. We are trying to make sure that doesn’t happen here.
It’s difficult to explain a giraffe to a Bolivian who lives on the Altiplano. But when they see one, I think they’ll like it.
Let’s forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.
You have troubles with violent indigenous movement around the continent. Here, we are putting more power in their hands and creating a nonviolent indigenous society.
After Victor Paz’s government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina, with Peru, and in Brazil.
We are turning all Bolivians into capitalists.
Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human rights.
I ask one more thing from our father above – God save Bolivia.
I’m not going to say that the problems of my government, or those of Bolivia, are the fault of the United States. But they could have done a little more to help us.
I was always a reformer. My father and mother were progressives, and they believed in the universal vote, vote for women, land reform, and a lot of things which at one time were not accepted; they’re much more accepted now.
There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.
I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of military government, a great deal of debt, and a great deal of expense.
I’ve never liked to judge other people in the hope that they won’t judge me.
Maybe I became president because I didn’t try to be it.
Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we’ll never find them through violence.
We don’t know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency.
I would say I’m a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren’t that rich, but the poor are very poor.
Only in the United States could you believe that people could be changed by information.
