Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

“Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.”

“The economy should serve man, not statistics.”

“I'm going to have to campaign to teach Bolivians who the president is, because apparently they haven't realized I'm here yet.”

“Maybe I became president because I didn't try to be it.”

“Taking power is fine. But what do you do when you are in power?”

“As a political exile, you always think you're going home next year.”

“I was very identified with and accused of being a neo-liberal with respect to the economy.”

“I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.”

“I was always a reformer. My father and mother were progressives, and they believed in the universal vote, vote for women, land reform, and a lot of things which at one time were not accepted; they're much more accepted now.”

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

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

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