Alejandro Toledo Quotations

We started and are about to finish negotiating free trade agreements

We're aware that voting is obligatory. Let's see if they can collect fines from 5 million Peruvians.

The only remaining recourse is to forward all the charges against Fujimori to an international tribunal.

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

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

Peru needs reconciliation, but it can't be done like this. Peru cannot be kidnapped by the military commanders and you cannot permit negotiations with a gun to your head.

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

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

If something happens it will be because the intelligence services provoke incidents to discredit us.

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

I think that was the right thing to do. If we would have participated, we would have participated in a fraudulent process.

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,

The armed forces and the police should be subordinated to the authority elected by the popular sovereignty.

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

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

We are continuing our campaign ... until the day when a clean election is carried out,

There are great reasons to celebrate. This is a gigantic step toward the recovery of democracy and liberty.

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

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.

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

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,

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.

poverty and exclusion conspire against peace, security and democracy.

This is an enormous responsibility: the responsibility to maintain peace and international security and resolve controversies that may arise in the world,

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

It's not only a legal matter, it's also a moral and ethical matter that the country needs to clear up, ... What we're trying to do, while giving him all the rights to due process, is to finally bring him to justice.

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.

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

clear the present government was administering the electoral process.

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

Although back in 2001 many people thought we were insane to set the goal of doubling our exports by the end of our administration, we were able to reach it a year before our promise, ... We hope the next government will set a similar goal, even if it sounds crazy, because we can do it.