Carlos Mesa Quotes

born 1953

Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert (born 12 August 1953) is a Bolivian historian, journalist, and politician who served as the 63rd president of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005. Mesa previously served as the 37th vice president from 2002 to 2003.

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We are at the beginning, on the threshold of a new time and that new time has to have a new leadership.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Our maximum responsibility is to act with intellectual honesty in what we believe and to work in a dialectical process in which the end result is something we build, not something we just destroy.

Politics is not the art of ethics.

Besieged Presidency (2010)

Writing is for me like breathing.

Besieged Presidency (2010)

Sánchez de Lozada sought to impose constitutional order and consolidate democracy with force. The result was a country on the brink of war [...].

Besieged Presidency (2010)

I am not a friend of demagogic positions and easy answers. My historical and ethical conviction is unalterable, but as a responsible citizen and much more as the president of Bolivians, my obligation is to reconcile the issues of principle with the demands of reality.

Besieged Presidency (2010)

I am not a person that you can handle as you please, I am not going to respond to things that I do not believe in, I am not going to accept doing things that I do not think I should do. I am not controllable, Carlos.

Besieged Presidency (2010)

[The vice presidency is] "the most stupid position of all" [...]. An office with a single objective, that of succession, with few clear powers.

Besieged Presidency (2010)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carlos Mesa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.