I believe that every president wants to give everyone work but they can't; they want everyone to eat but they can't make it happen. The same happens with education. So we have to ask ourselves, "Why can't we do anything?"

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

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.

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

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

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.