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In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. Evo Morales

Government Racism People Ending Colonialism First Changes President Our Presidential Our People Entered Slogan Indigenous Main Exclusion La Square Committed Centuries Many Bolivia Lived Palace

The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect. Evo Morales

Government Relationship Respect Difficult Worldwide Relations States Characterized Mutual Mutual Respect Indigenous Between Always Been Just Movements Social Bilateral Bolivia United United States Need

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

Mind States Permanent Being United United States Nightmare

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

Change Impossible Change Things Way See Without Things Resistance

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

Wealth Animals Hair National Skin Our Alienated Once City Indian Raw Raw Materials Excluded Like Majority Always Vermin Came Materials Were Oppressed Politically Whenever Bolivia Population Here Treated

In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state - after the nationalization, after changing the law - Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly 10 million inhabitants, this allows us to increase the national economy. Evo Morales

Law Country Year National Before Increase Changing President State Only Small Small Country Had Economy National Economy After Us Inhabitants Bolivia Nearly Million Received Last Last Year

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again. Evo Morales

Time People Our Latin Latin America Our People Solution Economic Argentina Simply Countries Economies Like Venezuela Globalization Been Model America Same Same Time Again Growing Rejected

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue. Evo Morales

Change Will About Continue Process Bolivia Bringing Starting

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

Latin Divided Powers Always Foreign Foreign Powers Been Historically Nations Keep

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible. Evo Morales

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. Evo Morales

Best Money Down State Secret Way UN Would Would-Be Best Way Dirty Put Heads Tracking End Accounts Bank Them Should

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly. Evo Morales

Hope Constituent Lot Assembly

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

Time Stress No Time Want Bolivia Acts

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America. Evo Morales

Capitalism Hurt Latin Latin America Only America

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle. Evo Morales

Lie Law Three Latin Consists Moral Indians Steal Principles Idle According America Act Reserve Basic Basic Principles Universal

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks? Ezer Weizman

You Man Seen Honey Knitting Ever Socks

I believe that first impressions are very important. F. W. de Klerk

First Important Believe First Impressions Impressions Very

I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book. F. W. de Klerk

For many years, I supported the concept of separate states. F. W. de Klerk

States Supported Concept Years Separate Many

The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades. F. W. de Klerk

Finance Government Power South Africa Keys Our April Minister Stay Had He Budget Force Principles Within Came Been South Decades Going Africa After Them Convinced Elections Drafted Necessity Need

Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them. F. W. de Klerk

World Horizons Above New Owe Stop Children Conflicts Them Create

President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time. F. W. de Klerk

Time President Hands-On Any Mandela

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy. Fatos Nano

Dictatorship Nation Gone Everything Anarchy Through Partition Even

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