I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

The challenge is for us to reinvigorate the relationship with the Chilean people and to give state institutions new legitimacy. But this is also a universal phenomenon. There's also disenchantment with politics in Europe.

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.