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" Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times. "

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

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" Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century. "

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" 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

" Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we'll never find them through violence. "

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

" We are turning all Bolivians into capitalists. "

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 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

" There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society. "

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. "

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" Only in the United States could you believe that people could be changed by information. "

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

" We want to bring order and respect for the constitution. "

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

" Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics. "

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

" Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human rights. "

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" As a political exile, you always think you're going home next year. "

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

" I want society to feel they are part of a process of change. "

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

" 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

" Democracy is not perfect. "

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

" 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. "

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

" The economy should serve man, not statistics. "

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

" 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

" I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests. "

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

" 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

" Taking power is fine. But what do you do when you are in power? "

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

" 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

" Maybe I became president because I didn't try to be it. "

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada