Evo Morales Quotes

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Evo Morales

Profession : Statesman

Birth : October 26, 1959

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

Evo Morales

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

Evo Morales

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

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The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.

Evo Morales

I am not accustomed to protocol.

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It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.

Evo Morales

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

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I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

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The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

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Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

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Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

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The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.

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We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

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I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.

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I don't debate with liars.

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This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.

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The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

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Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

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I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

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Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

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