There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production.

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

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.

I can't spend my whole day talking to people.

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.