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

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.

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.

Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while we're at it?

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.

We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now.

You cannot lose games in the NFL, and still win