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No addiction is good.
I am an austere president.
I know prisons from the inside.
Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.
I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.
But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.
If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me.
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
I never killed anyone because it wasn't necessary. I could have killed.
No country can solve climate change alone, we have to take global measures.
I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.
Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.
My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.
I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.
There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.
I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.
Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.
I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.
Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.
I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.