I learned that the political is above the legal, that's why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal, I say, if it is illegal, then do it legal, you have studied for that".

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.

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

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

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

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

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

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

It's chance, I tell you, ' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

When you’re lost there’s nowhere to go but forward. One step at a time – and the way will show itself.

To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.