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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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

It's difficult to explain a giraffe to a Bolivian who lives on the Altiplano. But when they see one, I think they'll…

— 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…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

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

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

The economy should serve man, not statistics.

— 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…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

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

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Democracy is not perfect.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I ask one more thing from our father above - God save Bolivia.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

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

— 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…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

We want to bring order and respect for the constitution.

— 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