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.

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

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

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.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.

Dogs are special that way—you can ignore them or yell at them, they always forgive you. —Madison

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.