America Quote by Nicholas Kristof

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru,…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.”

— Eduardo Galeano

“That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.”

— William Powers

Lithium is like a beautiful lady, very much sought and pursued, especially in Bolivia. There is data indicating Bolivia has the largest reserves of…

— Evo Morales

Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's…

— Milton Friedman

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

— Evo Morales

Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry…

— Vaclav Klaus

Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am…

— David Dewhurst

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

— Evo Morales

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled…

— Evo Morales

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries…

— Noam Chomsky

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together…

— Evo Morales

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

— Evo Morales