The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

Chile has changed. The people have become more mature and they are more conscious of their rights. They want to participate and have a say about things such as if and where a power plant can be built.

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