Community Quotes by 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…

— 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

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,…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

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

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 was always a reformer. My father and mother were progressives, and they believed in the universal vote, vote for women, land reform, and…

— 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

I was very identified with and accused of being a neo-liberal with respect to the economy.

— 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…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada