I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.
Salvador AllendeFidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do.
Salvador AllendeChile 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.
Salvador AllendeI have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.
Salvador Allende