Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a go-between with my experience, I will support the government's call for dialogue with the rebel forces who also have their problems, who also have their fears. I think all us Latin Americans have to help.

We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

I never killed anyone because it wasn't necessary. I could have killed.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.