Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"I was very identified with and accused of being a neo-liberal with respect to the economy."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"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."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human rights."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"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."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"I've never liked to judge other people in the hope that they won't judge me."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"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."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"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."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"Only in the United States could you believe that people could be changed by information."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"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."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"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."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"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."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"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."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we'll never find them through violence."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"I'm going to have to campaign to teach Bolivians who the president is, because apparently they haven't realized I'm here yet."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"We don't know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"To say to a country that it shouldn't export its gas is like saying, 'Look, the only way we can defeat hunger is to put a padlock on the refrigerator.'"
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
"There are radical elements who don't want me to finish my term. But I will not resign."
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
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