Bolivia Quotes

• Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

  Carlos Mesa

  Country

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

  Evo Morales

  Majority, Indigenous, Nations

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• La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

  Phil Keoghan

  Cities, Extraordinary

  "Meet Phil Keoghan: 'Amazing' host, amazing experiences". Interview with Laura Bly, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 25, 2008.

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• I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

  Evo Morales

  Voice, Democratic

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• I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.

  Evo Morales

  Stress, Want

  "Bolivia's Morales to UN: Legalize coca-leaf chewing" by Marilia Brocchetto, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2012.

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• The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

  Carlos Mesa

  Errors, Reform, Cost

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Bolivian President Mesa". Interview with Geri Smith, www.bloomberg.com. July 5, 2004.

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• Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.

  Butch Cassidy

  Kids, Next, Sundance

  "Fictional character: Butch Cassidy". "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", 1969.

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• Fortunately, in Bolivia, we have begun to liberate ourselves economically. If we do not accompany social and cultural liberation with economic liberalization, the country will continue to be subjugated.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Economic, Social

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous.

  Noam Chomsky

  White, Democracy, Example

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• Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

  Evo Morales

  Hands, Majority, Use

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Evo Morales

  Beautiful, Data, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia.
  Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

  U-God

  Rap, Mma, Giving

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• If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to have the same kind of reaction that the Cubans had to Castro, then you're high.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Thinking, People, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Opposites

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Chavez's oil is unimportant for Bolivia... We are not dependent on Venezuela. We complement each other. Venezuela shares its wealth with other countries, but that doesn't make us subordinate.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Oil, Venezuela

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.

  Evo Morales

  Animal, Cities, Ddt

  "Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America". SPIEGEL Interview, www.sott.net. August 28, 2006.

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• I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

  Carlos Mesa

  Responsibility, Numbers, Able

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• Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Europe, Gold

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Reality, Impact

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.

  Evo Morales

  Government, Goal, Unity

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• In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

  Evo Morales

  Self, Class, Roots

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• Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations, there are important things happening; where the indigenous populations have been marginalized or exterminated, things go to a disaster. This is true worldwide, and Bolivia is striking because it's a majority population and in the lead.

  Noam Chomsky

  Talking, Environmental, Important

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture”, p.3, Macmillan

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• 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 lands... Colombia, Bolivia and Peru would not be suffering from narco-terror, and we would not be distorting our foreign policy because of it.

  Milton Friedman

  Ghetto, Men, Land

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

  Evo Morales

  Sea, Together Again, Historical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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