Quotes from Evo Morales

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

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.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

I am not accustomed to protocol.

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

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

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

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time

We stand for global security and so we take care of everyone's life.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia.