Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

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.

I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

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.

Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.

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.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

I trusted you with my scarsBut now I'm bleedingSaid I was your moon and you were the starsYou're so deceivingI trusted you with my scarsBut now I'm bleedingThe wound is deep Blood is seeping

There ain't nothin' that makes a man feel more alive than white-hot desire.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

The minute I leave my house - that is where I feel safe - I'm immediately in the jungle. The key is to survive through the cold world.

I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.