A demonstration is a normal practice in democratic countries. But if we have any violence at the protest, it would severely hurt the economy.

Businessmen don't have a problem with a change in government or with the protests provided that everything is under the democratic system. What they fear the most is if the system is destroyed and we have to start all over again.

I have stopped investments and decided to wait and see about the political situation.

Despite the arrests and violence, we consider today's protest a success, ... Two weeks before the vote, we can say that this country lacks conditions for holding democratic elections and the authorities are trying to imitate them.

We distance ourselves from the violence. We still don't think it's because of our protest that people in some places have used violence.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]