Quotes by Evo Morales

About Evo Morales:

Juan Evo Morales Ayma is a Bolivian politician and cocalero activist who has served as President of Bolivia since 2006. Widely regarded as the country's first president to come from the indigenous population, his administration has focused on the implementation of leftist policies, poverty reduction, and combating the influence of the United States and multinational corporations in Bolivia. A democratic socialist, he is the head of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party.
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Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

Evo Morales

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

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

Evo Morales

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.

Evo Morales

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.

Evo Morales

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.

Evo Morales

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

Evo Morales

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.

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I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

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I don't debate with liars.

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For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

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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.

Evo Morales

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

Evo Morales

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

Evo Morales

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with ...

Evo Morales

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.

Evo Morales

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

Evo Morales

In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state - after the nationalization, after changing the law - Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly ...

Evo Morales

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

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Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

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Author Bio

  • NameEvo Morales
  • DescriptionBolivian politician
  • BornOctober 26, 1959
  • CountryBolivia
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsOrder Of Augusto César Sandino; Al-Gaddafi International Prize For Human Rights