Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

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.

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

People can progress only by working and producing more.

This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

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.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

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.

I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today.

Education will teach you ephemeral things. God will teach you wonders.

I think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see us create jobs.

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

Women are lining up to marry me. Legend has it, I know how to do it.