Ollanta Humala Quotations

We want more investors to come, to rescue the concept of corporate social responsibility. We will be a government that respects foreign investments, that has a profound respect for private property and freedom of expression.

Next month I'll be going again to Venezuela to participate in an international forum and there's nothing wrong with that. What is wrong with meeting Hugo Chavez? He is the leader of a nation, not a criminal.

I'd just say the situations in our two countries - Venezuela and Peru - are completely different. The fact that we have an important agenda of change here doesn't mean that we want to join in the ideological conflict between Venezuela and the United States.

The armed forces aren't demanding a favor. They are demanding their rights.

We need to redistribute wealth, even if that clashes with interest groups. The country has been given away to the multi-national companies. Now we're going to change the rules for the rich.

We are the quiet force built up by five centuries of exploitation, tired of living under the dictatorship of the rich and ready to build a new motherland.

The people are waiting for a change and we are on the right road to bring it to them.

We are living a dictatorship of the rich. I am happy that the rich and powerful call me anti-system if it is their system that keeps Peru in poverty and misery.

We are seeing the desperation of the traditional political class. I wish to call for political unity of the social and leftist forces of the nation.

Today, with our vote, we have the chance to initiate a major transformation of our country.

We see a large social fracture in the country and we don't want to deepen it.

This is a process happening throughout the region. New regimes have surged within these conditions, democratically. We are seeing a new face of Latin America. It's trying to construct a family, a Latin American family.

They want to destroy a soldier but I will not permit it.

I'm a victim of an anti-democratic campaign, a political ambush.

The international community faces ever growing phenomena that transcend borders. I am specifically referring to terrorism, transnational organized crime, the global drug problem, corruption, traffic in persons, sexual exploitation, trafficking of children and adolescents, and smuggling of arms, among others.

You could question his macroeconomics, but Velasco gave dignity to the people who lived in the countryside.