The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

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 want to have the heart and mind of a queen, ” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

Traveling renews you.

Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those who most deserve our care and protection.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.