Evo Morales

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

— Evo Morales

We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list…

— Evo Morales

I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the…

— Evo Morales

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and…

— Evo Morales

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty...

— Evo Morales

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but…

— Evo Morales

Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential…

— Evo Morales

Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources…

— Evo Morales

Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should…

— Evo Morales

With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work…

— Evo Morales

Friends, we have now won…I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents.…

— 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…

— Evo Morales

The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia…

— Evo Morales

It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than…

— Evo Morales

70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We…

— Evo Morales

Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian.…

— Evo Morales

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America…

— 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…

— Evo Morales

The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.

— Evo Morales

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional…

— Evo Morales

What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great…

— Evo Morales

I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in…

— Evo Morales

In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite…

— Evo Morales

Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of…

— Evo Morales

I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and…

— Evo Morales

There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel [Castro]…

— Evo Morales

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know…

— Evo Morales

In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our…

— Evo Morales

We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go…

— Evo Morales