Alejandro Toledo Quotes

It doesn't make sense that Wall Street applauds us because we do things well at the macro level. The objective is that that healthy economic growth is reflected in the reduction of extreme poverty.

I am following minute by minute the unfolding of this tragic accident.

We are now beginning to see the fruits of the sacrifice it has taken to maintain discipline and achieve sustained economic growth.

poverty and exclusion conspire against peace, security and democracy.

We need to accelerate the process. That's why we're here.

We want to expand the bases of support for a free trade agreement with the United States, and therefore we have to talk with the Democrats.

You cannot redistribute what you don't have. We deliberately designed some specific social programs, but did not design the economy to have a trickle-down effect, ... We have planted a seed and I have paid a high political price. But Peru has been inserted into the international democratic community.

But prudence can also be understood as the difference between good and bad. I know the road we've taken is the good and prudent one.

In our fight to recover democracy in Peru, we will not put all our eggs in the basket of the Organization of American States.

Nobody suspected that 12 months before ... that we could bring down dictatorship and have new elections, ... respected the results.

We will see what happens.

a close linkage with her.

Changing the date is absolutely necessary to have free and democratic elections in Peru.

When we opened the closet to see grandmother's jewels, we found that everything had been stolen.

May those who are still hidden in the mountains hear me. I am not going to give you a truce.

Tonight Peruvians celebrate the triumph of democracy, ... I swear, brothers and sisters, I will never let you down.

I already know who won today's election, ... Because this vote was carried out according to regulations, Peru and democracy have won today.

I don't negotiate with gangsters. I call on Fujimori to step down tomorrow.

clear the present government was administering the electoral process.

I'm very sorry that President Alberto Fujimori and the National Election Board have decided to push the country to a crisis with unforeseen consequences.

I blame the president ... for the possible consequences of leading Peru ... to instability in a country on a razor's edge.

in the same fraudulent process.

I am stubborn, and I believe it is not incompatible to respect the law and to be strong-handed with regard to the issue of terrorism and drug trafficking.

announced the death of democracy in Peru.

Dictators do not leave power voluntarily; that was the case in Indonesia with Suharto, that was the case with Marcos in the Philippines, that was the case with Pinochet in Chile, and we need to be prepared to confirm the challenge.