Carlos Mesa famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Sea #Essentials #Foreign Policy
Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Country #Bolivia
I want Bolivians to support their president.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Support #President #Want
The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Errors #Reform #Cost
I have reached a limit in my work.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Limits
I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Running #Responsibility #Running Away
I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Responsibility #Numbers #Bolivia
My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Government #Issues #Challenges
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Army #Regimes #Greater

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

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