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.

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.

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.

Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.