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This is not the Chile we want to build.
My library is filled with UN condemnations.
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
I can't spend my whole day talking to people.
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
People can progress only by working and producing more.
I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.
Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.
You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.
Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.
I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.
Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.
The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.
Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.
I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.
The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.
We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.
It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.
No child should be left behind - I've heard this from President Obama. And here, we say in Latin America, no country should be left behind.
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.
I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.
Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.
We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.